A small, quieter town just south of Dumaguete — worth a stop specifically because it’s the kind of heritage-and-barangay-life town Dumaguete itself has mostly built over. The old town center (church, plaza, civic buildings) has a genuinely slower civic rhythm than the highway-adjacent barangays that make up most of the municipality today. Beyond the town center, Bacong has a scatter of small coastal barangays, a quiet inland barangay cluster, and low-traffic rural/inner loops connecting farms away from the highway — this is a place better explored slowly by scooter or tricycle along back roads than visited for one specific sight.

HOW TO GET THERE: A short tricycle or jeepney ride south of Dumaguete along the coast road, before reaching Dauin — easily combined with a Dauin day trip rather than visited alone.

BEST TIME: Daytime for the town/civic areas; no particular time-of-day draw for the barangay loops beyond normal daylight hours.