San Vicente: Next Boracay?

Being promoted as the next Boracay, is the Long Beach located at San Vicente, Palawan. San Vicente is a 5 hour land trip from Puerto Princesa. Half of the trip is on good roads along the national highway, and half on dusty, (muddy during the rainy season) and unpaved roads leading to this beach town. An international airport is being constructed to make this town more accessible to tourists. Presently there are no resorts along the Long Beach area. But there is a 5 star resort under construction.

Long Beach is a 14 kilometer stretch of fine sand beach which is as good as the white fine sand of Boracay except that here the sand is not really white, more light brownish. According to the locals, about 15 years ago, the sand was really white but because of the logging going on in the mountains in the area, the eroded brown mountain soil is wash down to the beach during heavy rains and has altered the color of the beach sand into light brownish white.

I came during the rainy season and expectedly the waves were strong. But there was an even stronger undercurrent. Concerned residents advised me against venturing far out into the sea and just stay along the beach.

However, a friend who owns a property in the area told me that during summer, the sea is calmer and the color of the water is a beautiful turquoise similar to what you see in Boracay.

Long Beach is definetely unspoilt and pretty in its own way but I am not sure if it can rightly claim to be the next Boracay.