Timor-Leste Travel Blogs

Another 'Xanana' republic
Jun 2, 2005 (9 photos)

... difficult to meet genuine locals who wish to befriend you because of the barrier between tourists and locals. Tired? Come to Timor Leste. The only way I can describe this story is through a little anecdote... Our visa had been filled out incorrectly ...

East Timor
Jan 30, 2006 (4 photos)

I think I am officially off the backpacker trail here. The poverty is overwhelming in Dili. Once you get away from the city, however, this is a beautiful country! I spent a day diving here, but was more taken by the drive along the coastline than what I ...

Keine Probleme auf Timor / No problems on Timor
Jul 29, 2007 (13 photos)

... Tourismus unberuehrt ging es nach Dili. In Dili wurde in der einzigen, aber ganz sympatischen billig- Unterkunft East Timor Backpackers (oder Smoke House Backpackers) an der Hauptzufahrtsstrasse (Almirante Rua de Thomas Americo 231) eingecheckt und dort ...

Delay in Dili
Jan 17, 2007 (13 photos)

... . In a very short summary the Portuguese ran the place for 500 years and did nothing for the people or the infrastructure. East Timor declared independence from Portugal on Nov 28, 1975 and 10 days later Indonesia troops invaded. Over the next 24 years a ...

Danger in Dili
Jan 15, 2007 (4 photos)

Jan. 14, 2007 At our hotel's breakfast buffet this morning Deb told us she got a call in the night about a street killing. She had told us about the gangs of young men who roam the streets and cause the problems here in Dili. They are connected with ...

Dili Day Trip
Jan 19, 2007 (20 photos)

... to the tunnels the Japanese had forced the locals to dig and then killed the workers so they couldn't reveal their whereabouts. East Timor is not a very lucky place. In Venilale we visited the Catholic boarding schools there. [GPS 08 38.275S 126 22.902E]

Another world...
Jun 2, 2005 (28 photos)

Though only 1 ¾ hours flight from Darwin, East Timor, the World's newest country, certainly is worlds away... My room mate said that I was the first traveler he'd seen for 10 days! The other foreigners here are working with the UN, which also makes this ...

It's a Dili Day One
Jan 14, 2007 (7 photos)

... and destroyed. We drove out to the village of Baccoi where most of the town had been burned out. Deb called it the Mogadishu of Timor Leste. She repeatedly referred to the UN presence as a "full on mission". She had been here for 8 months and we we're the ...

Dili Detour
Jan 18, 2007 (17 photos)

Jan. 18, 2007 Things aren't all bad in Dili. There are some good restaurants for instance. One of our favorites is the City Café, not far from our hotel and near the place where we saw the rock throwing gangs in the street. Seafood is of course ...

La fine dell'Asia
Dec 14, 2008 (27 photos)

... mente. Non so esattamente dove si trovi l'ombelico del mondo, ma ora so per certo dove si trova la periferia: Dili, Timor Leste. Un Paese che fino a sei anni fa non esisteva neppure, almeno non ufficialmente, fagocitato per decenni dallo scomodo vicino ...

Dili and training
Aug 30, 2004

I arrived in Dili two weeks ago and after 4 days in the city moved to a suburb called Hera to live with a host family. Dili is a lot different than Port-au-Prince. It is surprisingly clean and not very crowded. Everywhere you go you see evidence of the ...

timtim and timor experience
Dec 5, 1998

My coming out!! The people here have nothing but are extremely warm hearted. WoW Its spooky here.

Laleia
Dec 6, 2008

Beautiful.... do not miss!

UNMIT Service -- at post
Oct 25, 2007

Service as CEO of UNMIT

Timor-Leste visit
Nov 19, 2007 (5 photos)

... in the area of rural water supply and sanitation. The purpose of this program is to help build the capacity of the Timor-Leste government in the provision of water supply and sanitation services. The team will be working with the Ministry of Health (which ...

Christmas in the village
Dec 27, 2004

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!! I know a lot of people are concerned about me with the earthquakes and tsunamis, but I actually didn't feel a thing. I have felt three minor earthquakes in the last three months but nothing to even be concerned about ...

Jun 01, 2006
Jun 1, 2006 (1 photos)

Dilli
Oct 14, 2007

... hatch on the caravan and shouts us over. OK Mr Smirk from Manchester. 11 days you want Yes please Commander Genral The republic of Timor Leste says you need 15 bucks a day to support yourself while you are here no i have done my sums and it will be& ...

podruhe a naposledy
Feb 2, 2007 (1 photos)

Tak jsem dorazila podruhe na misto cinu. Posledni jizda vlakem take stala za to. Narvany vlak, jak jinak, listek jen na stani. Nastesti sem urvala tretinu sedatka na 3hod jizdy. Jinak se mito nezda tak hrozny jako poprve. Normalni mesto. Tak to byl ...

Dili
Feb 26, 2009

Test

Jaco Island
Dec 6, 2008

Forlorn island in the middle of nowhere :-)

lovely city to live
Jun 3, 1999 (4 photos)

... , apalagi lifestyle masyarakatnya akan terasa berbeda dari kehidupan masyarakat Indonesia pada umumnya, itu sudah terasa jauh sebelum Timor Leste menjadi negara tersendiri.. Sayang, album-album foto kami hilang saat mengungsi tahun 1999, mungkin kami hanya ...

Capital of East Timor
Dec 6, 2008

Philippines guest house

Baukau
Dec 6, 2008

Nice

Com
Dec 6, 2008

Very nice place....

Welcome to Timor-Leste
Aug 16, 2006

We arrive in interesting Dili where you can still see burnt out homes from the recent violence right in the middle of town. And pigs.

Arrival in Timor
Dec 1, 2006

There were nine of us on the contingent.  A mixture of AFP and VICPol, and we'd only had a couple days in Canberra to determine if we were going to like each other for the next 8 months. 

What a shock
Oct 16, 2007

... We did not get the shouting and the hassel you tend to assosiate with indonesia and they speak a different tounge here in timor leste. Its called Teuten but lots of the older people speak portugese and the young of course speak Bahasa from Indonesia. ...

Dilli
Oct 15, 2007 (15 photos)

... hatch on the caravan and shouts us over. OK Mr Smirk from Manchester. 11 days you want Yes please Commander Genral The republic of Timor Leste says you need 15 bucks a day to support yourself while you are here no i have done my sums and it will be& ...

toughest job I'll ever love
Apr 20, 2005

... Another good thing about living by myself is that the people in my community see that I am not like the other foreigners in Timor. They see that I don't have fancy furniture or American food. I eat the same things they eat and if anything they have nicer ...