Abstract
In 2008, Areia Branca (White Beach) was a popular weekend swimming and sunbathing spot for the expatriates still living in Dili, as well as the fewer East Timorese who were free enough to spend an afternoon playing in the shallows. In the early 1970s, the colonial Portuguese hoped that Ariea Branca would be one of East Timor’s tourist beaches, a few shelters built then remaining as a reminder of that lost dream.
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© 2009 Damien Kingsbury
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Kingsbury, D. (2009). Introduction. In: East Timor. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230621718_1
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