Buwakan ni Alejandra: Balamban's Newest Spot

 Buwakan ni Alejandra or literally ‘Alejandra’s Flower Farm,’ is a 700 square meter property which houses a wide variety of local and imported plants. The property, which remained idle for years, was transformed recently and has become another addition to Cebu’s continually-growing list of tourist spots.

Buwakan ni Alejandra was named after Alejandra, the owner of the property. Although Alejandra wasn’t able to see the transformation herself, her children, who now own the 70 sqm lot, decided to name it after her.

The garden houses hundreds of different species of flowering and ornamental plants – some of them I have never ever seen before.

Entrance fee to the garden is PhP50. You have to pay cash at the gate in order to get a ticket. You don’t have to pay for parking (along the road,) but a dude will be ‘looking after’ your vehicles and you can give you pretty much any amount you wanna give.

My friend invited us to join them in there wedding pictorial in Buwakan ni Alejandra.

the ‘entrance fee’ comes with a short guided tour handled by some very polite and friendly local kids. I’m pretty sure these kids are relatives (possibly even children) of the owners. It’s pretty cool to see how they entertain the visitors.