Philippines" by the Asian
Golf Monthly magazine. If you want to find out why Santa Elena feels
like a huge, wooded park, walk on their golf course where you
will come across trees, plants, birds, lakes, ponds, and the sight
of mystical Mount Makiling on the horizon. All this lush-ness makes
playing golf even better; and if you don't, it's a good excuse if
any, to learn how to play. What nature has endowed is perpetually
maintained and refined by a full time agronomist, horticulturist,
and landscaper. The beauty is in the details. What may look like a
random cluster of trees and plants was actually well thought of.
Around the golf course's fairways are two residential villages
named after Philippine legendary mountains -Banahaw and Sierra
Madre.
To maintain the estate's draw
as a wooded sanctuary, lots are limited. They take "breathing space"
here seriously. Houses must be at least 8 meters apart and its
design must conform to architectural restrictions (translation: no
gaudy structures please). Having your home built near or besides a
golf course is like having all the fairway grass of the course
appear like an extension of your lawn or garden. Living by the
course also has tremendous health benefits. There is practically no
pollution for the course's 120-hectare area acts as a giant air
purifier sucking noxious fumes and giving out
oxygen.
Wooded, secure, private, and
amenities at your disposal, Sta. Elena sets the standard for
what a balanced and genteel countryside community should be. Plus,
there are no "barbarians" within its gates.
