{"id":8312,"date":"2016-10-05T15:57:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T07:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=8312"},"modified":"2016-10-05T15:57:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T07:57:36","slug":"puerto-princesas-own-version-of-cherry-blossom-park-soon-to-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/10\/05\/puerto-princesas-own-version-of-cherry-blossom-park-soon-to-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Princesa\u2019s own version of Cherry Blossom Park soon to open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 5.8 \u2013 hectare park in Puerto Princesa known as \u201cBaluyong Park\u201d will feature Palawan&#8217;s version of Japan&#8217;s famed cherry blossom or &#8220;Sakura&#8221; trees.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8313\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/10\/Cherry-blossoms-Palawan-CNNPH.jpg\" alt=\"cherry-blossoms-palawan-cnnph\" width=\"768\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Image grabbed from this website <a href=\"http:\/\/cnnphilippines.com\/regional\/2016\/09\/30\/Puerto-Princesa-breaks-ground-on-cherry-blossom-park.html\">cnnphilippines.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Palawan\u2019s cherry trees, locally known as \u201cBalayong\u201d are endemic in the local area, it is a tree recognized with white and pink flowers when in full bloom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nPuerto Princesa Mayor Lucilo Bayron said that it has been a lifelong dream to be able to build a park that is capable of holding all the major events in the city thus the promotion of the project.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nCity Information Officer Richard Ligad said fully-grown balayong trees were transplanted to the park using Korean technology.<br \/>\nAside from the tunnel of baluyong trees, the park will also feature an ecumenical chapel, meditation garden, fitness and recreational park auditorium, a water park, and an amphitheater.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe mayor revealed that the estimated cost for this project will be around P100 Million, also including the renovation and upgrades of all the existing buildings at the City Sports Complex.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nPhilippines\u2019 first cherry blossom park is located in Atok, Benguet. However, unlike the Balayong Park, the one in Benguet features Japan\u2019s cherry blossom trees which are expected to produce flowers and be in full bloom after three years.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em> Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/cnnphilippines.com\/regional\/2016\/09\/30\/Puerto-Princesa-breaks-ground-on-cherry-blossom-park.html\">cnnphilippines.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tcfdaily.com\/puerto-princesa-cherry-blossom-park\/\">tcfdaily.com<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 5.8 \u2013 hectare park in Puerto Princesa known as \u201cBaluyong Park\u201d will feature Palawan&#8217;s version of Japan&#8217;s famed cherry blossom or &#8220;Sakura&#8221; trees. Image grabbed from this website cnnphilippines.com Palawan\u2019s cherry trees, locally known as \u201cBalayong\u201d are endemic in the local area, it is a tree recognized with white and pink flowers when in full bloom. &nbsp; Puerto Princesa Mayor Lucilo Bayron said that it has been a lifelong dream to be able to build a park that is capable of holding all the major events in the city thus the promotion of the project. &nbsp; City Information Officer Richard Ligad said fully-grown balayong trees were transplanted to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/10\/Cherry-blossoms-Palawan-CNNPH-e1475654232946.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8315,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312\/revisions\/8315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}