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Yahoo! and AskMen.com have ranked Boracay Island as one of the 10 best
beaches in the world. It's the only Asian beach in world's best 10
beaches.
Yahoo!, the most visited website on the Internet with more than 412
million users, ranked Boracay as the 7th best beach in the world. Boracay
Island is the only Asian beach included in the popular search engine list.
Beaches in California and Hawaii have dominated the list.
In AskMen.com is a Canadianbased, free online men's web portal. Its
sections feature topics that are pertinent to men. Among its sections are
Fashion and Lifestyle, Health and Sports, and Dating and Love. It said
Boracay island is ranked 8th in its list.
Yahoo! and AskMen.com also emphasized the "numerous positive feedback"
they received from website readers and the wide range of available
attractions each chosen beach offers.
In late 1980s, this resort island was named by two travel magazines as one
of the world's top 10 beaches. The island lost the title when the issue on
coliform contamination hit this resort island in mid-1990s.
With this positive exposure in the worldwide web, Aklan Gov. Carlito
Marquez is confident that business will be good on this resort island.
Boracay is famous for its powdery white sand, pristine waters and lush
tropical forests.
Marquez attributed Boracay's positive image abroad to the Department of
Tourism's aggressive promotional activities.
Boracay's two primary tourism beaches, White Beach and Bulabog Beach, are
located on opposite sides of the island's narrow area. White Beach faces
westwards and Bulabog Beach faces eastwards. The island also has several
other beaches.
White Beach is the main tourism beach. It is a bit over four kilometers
long and is lined with resorts, hotels, lodging houses, restaurants, and
other tourism-related businesses.
In the central portion stretching for about two kilometers, there is a
footpath known as the Beachfront Path separating the beach itself from the
establishments located along it.
Several roads and paths connect the Beachfront Path to Boracay's Main
Road, a vehicular road which runs the length of the island. At the
northern end of White Beach, a footpath runs around the headland there and
connects White Beach with Diniwid Beach.
Across the island from White Beach is Bulabog Beach, a secondary tourism
beach and Boracay's main windsurfing and kiteboarding area.
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