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Timor-Leste
Travel Blogs from Timor-Leste
Flores and East Timor 2005
... for going to East Timor NOW – before tourism starts big-time. An ongoing feature of the holiday was East Timor’s tragic recent history. Everywhere we saw ruined buildings – ruined by the Indonesian soldiers and the local militias in ...
Dili of a Capital
... was before the days of Air Asia, the very successful budget carrier, so flights are not cheap, least of all the spur to Timor Leste on Merpati, an Indonesian airline, owned by the enemy. Judging by the state of the plane's interior, they indeed may be ...
lovely city to live
... , 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 ...
Apr 01, 2011
Viqueque to Baucau
Had a great night sleep but again interrupted from 4am onwards by the crowing of roosters - Viqueque was probably the worst of all places we had stayed. We had to be up early as we had decided to get a bus up the 2000m elevation rise (over 30km by ...
Good advice that you just didn't take.
So i left Baucau and head south to Viqueque. I was warned that as soon as you start heading south the roads get worse, but I figured after what I'd already driven on, how much worse could it get. Oh, you mean there are no roads? So I leave paved road and ...
Baucau to Dili
... Dili and the other local sights. That evening we met a nun Joan who works for Caritas but has lived in East Timor on and off for years. Joan had some extremely interesting stories relating to the 1999 upheaval and her involvement in recovering some ...
Dili
... The memorial had a large flat screen television sitting unsecured that showed the lack of security and limited problems with stealing of Timor. After checking out the memorial we scooted back down into Dili, hitting speeds upwards of 45+km/h in ...
Totally worth the Climb!
... and love is lost though, because his arms open and welcome to the direction of Indonesia... although as years pass, and Timor-Leste grows stronger, a hope-filled and future focussed people move forward from the 25 years of fighting they had to endure to ...
Com to Valu Beach (Jaco)
... before going inland. We checked out the pier of Com which was once a port from large ships of trade between Indonesia and Timor but apparently no longer used. One thing we noticed about Com was that it had wheelie bins (something we had not previously ...
Welcome to Timor-Leste
We arrive in interesting Dili where you can still see burnt out homes from the recent violence right in the middle of town. And ...
tropical destinations with Germany
Yo! It's Tuesday, it's hot, i'm in Dili. I spent the weekend on Atauro, that island i mentioned north of Dili. It was AMAZING! The ferry (Berlin Nakroma) took about 3 hours and i was so glad to get my ass off it when we landed in Beloi. I ate lunch at ...
Arrival in Timor
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 ...
Alexander and the Changing of the Guard
... witness the Changing of the Guard. First Alexander played on what is some of the only playground equiptment in Timor. Then the Changing of the Guard began. Alexander thought it was an audience ...
What a shock
... 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
... 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 ...
toughest job I'll ever love
... 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 ...
Ups and Downs in Timor-Leste
... in Timor-Leste. Originally from New Zealand, he served in Timor in 2000 during the height of the fighting between Indonesia and Timor-Leste. He was a fascinating person to talk to and gave us some very practical advice. Namely, do not go ...
podruhe a naposledy
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 ...
May 01, 2011
My future home
I just spent the last week visiting the village that I will be calling home for the next two years. It is located in the district of Aileau (pronounced Eye-lay-oh) about 2 hours by public truck from Dili. My village is called Soloi and it is absolutely ...
Irabere to Viquque
... landslide (roughly 100m high with a large rock ending up just beside the road) and then a short time later we came across a Timor Telecom tower (in the middle of no where) which was strange as it was on the flat below the mountains so would only ...