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Malagos Garden Resort
Best time to visit
Visit on weekday mornings (9-11 AM) when the bird show and chocolate tour run back-to-back without weekend crowds. The gardens stay coolest before noon, perfect for walking the hillside trails.
Budget tips
Entrance is around PHP 300-400 per person (2024) which includes access to the gardens, bird park, and butterfly sanctuary. Chocolate and cheese-making tours cost extra (PHP 100-200) but are worth it; skip the overpriced restaurant and eat at the café near the chocolate factory instead.
Recommended for
Families with kids, Foodies and chocolate lovers, Garden and nature enthusiasts, Day-trippers from Davao City
Plan your visit
3-4 hours
About
Quick facts: Sprawled across 12 hectares of forested hillside, this family-owned resort doubles as an educational farm where cacao meets cheese-making under one roof. Its bird park stages daily shows featuring 200+ tropical birds, while the on-site chocolate factory grinds single-origin cacao from trees growing right on the property.
Highlights: The resort grows, ferments, and roasts its own cacao beans on-site, producing single-origin Malagos Chocolate you can watch being made from pod to bar. A working cheese facility next door churns out fresh kesong puti using milk from the property's own goats, creating an unexpected farm-to-table experience in the middle of a garden paradise.
Insider tips
- Wear sturdy walking shoes: the resort is built on a steep hillside with lots of stairs and sloping paths.
- Catch the 10 AM bird show for smaller crowds and better light for photographs.
- Buy chocolate bars directly from the factory shop at the end of the tour they cost 30% less than in Davao City malls.
- Skip the swimming pool it gets crowded with local families on weekends and the garden trails are the real draw.
Practical info
Open every dayOpen late until 21:00 on every day
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