What comes to your mind when you think about Bali – Denpasar –
Kuta? it might straightly be about big city, crowd tourists, planned city, green
landscape, luxury hotels, clean beaches and etc. These characters are identic with Kuta, and thus attract some of newly rich people from Timor-Leste. Bali is a heaven for Timorese shoppers, they prefer to spend money and enjoy life with their families there.
Around a couple of weeks ago, I spent
overnight in Denpasar before went on to my last destination for a training purpose
trip. In Kuta, I walked and took some photos around while comparing Kuta with Area Branca in Dili. There is a huge difference between Kuta and Area Branca on the characters I described above. However, Cristo
Rei beach is not less attractive because it has distinctive natural scenery, white beach.
I compare the two and feel like Timor-Leste is also potential to attract International tourists as Bali does. It is because Timor-Leste has its own uniqueness as well. New rich Timorese business men, politicians should do something to make the dream happen, and stay and do things more in the country instead of going to Bali because our country also has so much to enjoy. I am saying this because if money flows out of the country our economy will not be sustainable.
I compare the two and feel like Timor-Leste is also potential to attract International tourists as Bali does. It is because Timor-Leste has its own uniqueness as well. New rich Timorese business men, politicians should do something to make the dream happen, and stay and do things more in the country instead of going to Bali because our country also has so much to enjoy. I am saying this because if money flows out of the country our economy will not be sustainable.
Kuta beach also has some different angle from what we have seen from the surface. I took this photo, a pile of garbage was waiting unremoved. I did not imagine that I could find such an embarrassing
object in this world class tourism area. After being surprised with this, I took out my camera and took the photo. I wanted to to
share it to my fellow bloggers and Facebookers.
Even in Kuta, we still find piles of rubbish in
some parts of the area, yet still attractive to millions of tourists every year. What I am trying to say is that Dili can surely organize itself and do something to offer to international tourists. As I compared, Area Branca is also attractive, and the government can develop it.
Hope this give you an inspiration.
Cheers
