Esoy Hot Spring
- Location
- Cebu, Philippines
- Water type
- sulfurous
- Temperature
- 35 °C
- pH
- 6.5
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Rich in active gases or metals — a strong mineral character.
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Esoy Hot Spring is a natural sulfurous thermal spring in Catmon municipality in northern Cebu, Philippines, where volcanic geothermal waters emerge in the agricultural and forest landscape of the central Cebu hills, offering simple natural bathing facilities in a rural setting relatively unaffected by the resort tourism concentrated on Cebu's famous white sand beaches and dive sites. The springs represent the quieter, less commercialised side of Cebu's natural attractions — distinct from the mass tourism infrastructure of Mactan, Moalboal, and Oslob that has made Cebu one of Southeast Asia's most-visited diving and beach destinations. The surrounding Catmon landscape of rolling hills, cacao and coconut farming, and the traditional barangay community culture of northern Cebu provides a genuinely local Filipino context for sulfurous hot spring bathing far from the international tourist circuits of the island's southern coastal resorts.