It is just barely three months ago, that the world-famous philippine resort island of Boracay opened up to the public after having been closed to tourists for half a year, because – according to president Rodrigo Duterte – had turned into a ’swamp of wastes’.
And the authorities go to extremes when it comes to keeping the newly opened island clean and neat.
Thus, it has since the opening been illegal to smoke, drink and eat on the beach, while all kinds of water sports are also banned, and now the police is actually also begun to clamp down on the iconic building sand castles, as local young people are based to earn money from tourists.
The write News.com.au.
Last year, it was a picture of the police, who are destroying a newly built sandcastle viral, and according to the australian media, you can even risk to smoke behind bars, if you build sand castles on the popular resort island.
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– This daily and uncontrolled commercial activity interferes with the natural terrain, resulting in a long-term presence of irregular contours, which affect the beach’s natural symmetry, standing there in Boracay’s law.
despite the fact that many tourists have scrappy the strict rules, claims Jose Mark Anthony Gesulga, who is head of Boracay’s tourist office, that they regularly receive complaints from tourists who feel cheated by the people who build sandslottene.
– We have complaints from people who have suddenly been asked to pay 50 pesos (6,25 dollars, ed.), says Gesulga and refers to the fact that some are placing their sand castles so that tourists come to photograph them by mistake.
in Addition he says that some tourists even have experienced to get stolen their belongings, while they have taken pictures of the nice sand castles.
See a few pictures of the iconic building sand castles including (the article continues below the images):
Photo: Ritzau Scanpix
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Sand Castle for limited time only. The creator said Jan 2 2019 was the last day to create one and they don’t know when the govt would allow to do it Again on boracay shore #sandcastleboracay
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According to the News.com.the au has approximately 300.000 tourists visited Boracay, since the island reopened, but according to the authorities, there is a long way to go before the island is completely rehabilitated.
When president Rodrigo Duterte in the month of april last year ordered the island closed to tourists, he called it a ‘cesspool of waste’, because waste flowed in the streets as well as in strandvandet on the holiday island. He accused even the hotels, restaurants and resorts, to lead the sewage directly into the water in the area.
therefore, It is also only about half of the island then the 12,000 hotel rooms, which in the future will be allowed to be open on a daily basis.
Last year, barely two million tourists in the seven kilometer long island with about 40,000 inhabitants.
