sand as souvenir? is a no!
By akatsukipein
@akatsukipein (70)
Philippines
August 29, 2012 5:03am CST
while watching the news in the local channel. i heard that making sand as souvenir in boracay beach is prohibited. the news says that the tourist are prohibiting them whether local or foreign to get sand from the famous beach in boracay and used it as souvenir. the reason according to the authority says that the sand is slowly decreasing and the penalty is 2,500 pesos and an imprisonment of 6 months.
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4 responses
@katrinapaz (2436)
• Philippines
31 Aug 12
thank you for this information akats! i am thinking of going to boracay soon and it will be my first time to go there and maybe when I will be thinking of souvenir I might think of getting sand! the penalty is very high and I dont want to be imprisoned just because of the sand
@rsa101 (38166)
• Philippines
30 Aug 12
Yeah I saw that one posted in the boats that ply from and to Boracay Island. But then I saw someone selling this small bottles with the sand there and brightly decorated. We even bought some and was able to get it out of the island without being noticed. I think they are not that strict yet especially when it is about souvenir items being sold in there.
@toniganzon (72554)
• Philippines
29 Aug 12
Yeah this law was implemented years ago and yet people still try to do that by putting those sand in a water bottle and hide it somewhere.
It's such a shame. Someday we won't have Boracay to boast anymore, not only because of the sand, but because of how the island has been commercialized.
