Jardin Necitas attracting tourists
PILAR, BOHOL — From an estimated 5,000 visitors during the opening day (September 27) of the Jardin Necitas, the “glowing garden” put up by the Cubrado family of Pilar town, the number has double or even tripled to this day, making it one of the best tourist attractions of Bohol province.
Vanessa Cubrado, daughter of Mayor Necitas Cubrado the garden of which was named after her, created the stunningly unique Jardin Necitas, “planted” with LED-lit artificial flowers, atop a hill at the center of the family’s 20-hectare mango plantation in Pilar, about 75 kilometers from Tagbilaran City.
Vanessa told The FREEMAN that Jardin Necitas has 15,000 ‘tulips’ and 5,000 ‘roses’ of various colors, made more amazing with figurines of birds and artificial cherry blossoms around the garden—all of which glow when the LED bulbs, attached to each, are switched on during night time.
The equally gorgeous Vanessa said she did not expect that the visitors to the site would continue to come to the place in droves until today, most of which are notably millennials who may not just curious of the site but wanting to experience its breathtaking spectacle.
One of the foreign tourists who had gone there said the Jardin Necitas is borne by nature’s gift of green landscape, more blessed with the panorama of the mountain ranges of Ubay and Mabini towns in the east, and Dagohoy town in the west.
Jardin Necitas, put up at a cost of P10 million, is located at Purok 5 in Barangay Bagumbayan of Pilar. Its drawing scenery has now move travel agencies to include Jardin Necitas in their tour packages for both local and international tourists.
Some enterprising households around the perimeter of the site have even put up sortof “convenience stores” and lodging quarters for visitors who may want to stay longer in the evening and savor the beauty of the place.
Vanessa said that she is now undertaking some development of the Jardin, which has its own cafeteria now, such as putting up of a tourists’ inn, a restaurant and a swimming pool with water from a nearby mountain spring, among others.