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Travel Blogs from Dili
To the end of the road and back
... there and wait for the bus. I even got a stool offered for the time being. Right then I didn't know that this stool will be my closest friend for the next 6 hours. Meanwhile it was bright sunshine and with the rising sun the guys got the bottles of petrol out and turned this place into a petrol station. By 09.30 the guys started asking around if there was someone around who could give me a lift back to Baucau. I ended up on ...
Betelmania
... people we meet at Barry's is a group of actors. Members of the Black Lung Theatre Company of Melbourne have been living for weeks in an abandoned Portuguese-era Hotel, where they have been rehearsing a new play, DOKU RAI (you, dead man, I don’t believe you), a joint production with Timorese actors. These guys add to the mystic of the island with their thespian banter and "been-on-the-island-too-long" torpor. Although theyall live down the road, they come to ...
Our Last Frontier
... we explore further, catching a taxi out to Kristo Rei, the Jesus Statue. It is beautiful out here. Hardly any people, white sandy beaches, clear blue water and a sea breeze which keeps the temperature down by a degree or two. The walk up to the statue is via a long easy staircase but the heat makes it harder than it is. View from the top is good and from a distance Dili seems quite nice. Behind the statue there is a wonderful, wild beach known affectionately by the locals as "The ...
School
... Timorese assistants.
Josh is in Grade Three and has Miss Leela, from Australia and a Timorese assistant called Miss Mary.
Zara has Mr Joppe from the Netherlands, and Miss Zelia is her Timorese teaching assistant.
I've been a student and now a teacher here. I did a two week language course at DIT (Dili Institute of ...
Ups and Downs in Timor-Leste
... much for spontaneity. We continued on our sojourn to find a place to lay our weary heads. We passed on the back room of a Bangladeshi restaurant ($40), a shipping container with a single bed and shared bathroom ($65), a hotel in the middle of construction ($?), and finally settled on a basic room that didn’t make us both cringe upon viewing it ($45). This was our first taste of what we came to refer to as 'low standards – ...