Day-asan Floating Village

Day-asan Floating Village is a stilt-house community in Barangay Day-asan, Surigao City, Surigao del Norte, Philippines, built over shallow tidal flats and mangroves near the Surigao Strait. Houses, walkways and small stores stand on wooden stilts above water, connected by footbridges and accessible by small boats. Notable for its traditional fishing culture, mangrove ecosystem and distinctive waterside settlement pattern, it offers visitors insight into local coastal livelihood and community life.

Visitors can expect a dense cluster of wooden houses on stilts over tidal water, interconnected by narrow wooden footbridges and boardwalks surrounded by mangroves. The setting is a working fishing village where residents go about daily activities. Visitors typically explore on foot along walkways and by small rented boats through channels, observing stilt architecture, fishing boats, mangrove areas, and small local stores and eateries.