Tours

Our native cooking tour is a delightful way to get to know our heritage. You get to know much about a place by what they cook. Discover what coconut plantation life is like by trying out our cooking techniques and learning where our ingredients come from.

San Pablo, Laguna, is a jewel of southern Luzon. It has a rich cultural history and a way of life shaped by coconut plantation living as well as by the amazing presence of seven crater lakes. It is also a city in transition—rapidly modernizing yet also earnestly preserving its past.

You can choose from two types of tours: hands-on cooking tours and educational demo tours.

Option 1: Coconut Native Cooking Tour

Join the tour that explores the rich influence of coconut on San Pablo lifestyle and cuisine.

Orientation: A fun mini-lecture on the importance of coconut in the history of San Pablo.

• Coconut Tour: : Our coconut tour is where you will be given a taste of the different edible stages of the coconut.
• Video Presentation: We will give you an overview of San Pablo native cooking through a short video documentary
• Cooking Demo: Our native kusinero will demonstrate how to prepare three dishes using gata or coconut milk.
• Hand-on Cooking: Classes are completely hands-on, encouraging you to practice rural Filipino cooking techniques. You and your friends will have your own cooking stations patterned after nipa hut kitchens with a banggerahan and native pots. Our kusinera-instructors will guide you through the recipes step-by-step as you cook.
• Minimum of 4 pax.
• Rate is P3,750++ per head inclusive of ingredients

*Please be there 15 minutes before tour starts.

Option 2: Coconut Cooking Demo

• Orientation: A fun mini-lecture on the importance of coconut in the history of San Pablo.
• Video Presentation: : We will give you an overview of San Pablo native cooking through a short video documentary
• Cooking Demo: Our native kusinero will demonstrate how to prepare three dishes using gata or coconut milk.
• Rate is P1,900++ per head.

*Special tour schedules can be arranged for families and groups.

Road Trip San Pablo is a traveler’s guide to creative experiences in and around San Pablo City, Laguna. We’re here to point you to different places and people you can visit to feed your curiosity and imagination.

Learning our native cooking, painting on a lakeshore, shaping and painting clay figures, participating in organic farming workshops, exploring restored turn-of-the-century homes, or visiting artist studios. These are just some of the travel options we’d like to share with you.

Located only a few hours drive away from Manila, Batangas, and Quezon, San Pablo remains a favorite among tourists looking for a relaxing and inspiring sabbatical. San Pablo is also an ideal jump off point to explore neighboring towns.

So while quarantine restrictions are gradually lifting, we hope you can join us on this journey through San Pablo City, Laguna and one day soon, make it part of your must-visit travel destinations. We’ll also let you know what health protocols are in place at every stop, so you can have a safe trip.

Arrive curious. Leave inspired.

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