Special envoy to Batroun
Batroun is no longer Batroun.
Its former followers tell the nostalgic refrain, swearing never to return there: too many people, too much noise in the heart of the ancient Phoenician city north of the Lebanese coast, about thirty kilometers from Tripoli.
“Ten years ago, we were just a bunch of hipsters on these beaches relatively protected from the constructions that disfigure the coast elsewhere,
explains Junior Daou, faded T-shirt and hair scorched by the sun.
It was a secret place for us, lovers of the sea and surfing.
Located between two antagonistic Christian zones during the civil war of 1975, the town had remained almost intact when other regions, perceived as safer, like Byblos, attracted the majority of tourists.
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