Esplanada Hotel Dili

... vista il quadro generale: non sono partito per girare il mondo senza volare, per sfida, per essere il figo che e' arrivato in Australia senza volare. Sono partito per vedere il mondo. Il fatto di non volare non era una sfida, ma piuttosto un modo per vederlo meglio il mondo, dal finestrino di un autobus, chiacchierando con i compagni di viaggio trovati per strada, e vedendo quel mondo scorrere via lentamente. Una marea di emozioni m'inondera' fra qualche ora mentre saliro ...

... The airport is surrounded by tents of UNHCR and some temporary homes of the 9000+ IDPs (internally displaced people) that have not yet gone home since the violence erupted in April 2006. Military presence was still strong, and various countries around the world were represented through the UN and EU. Burnt buildings and cars were visible on the main road from the airport to the city center. Young, unemployed people roamed the streets. On the day before I arrived, a ...

Our Bus ride to Dilli was pretty Much a doddle and i really enjoyed it we headed straight through a range of mountains in west timor and i found the scenery pretty stunning most of the way we got to see some really remote villages and the locals waved us past and chased the minibus everytime we went through a village of Beehive shaped huts. Again not a tourist in sight even when we arrived at the border town of Atumbua where we had to arrange trasport to ...

... Even worse I am chained to Cookie for the duration having to listen about his fav comic books and his one big regret is that he will never every get to see the new transformers film. Then the customs blokes start checking through our bags and i remeber that both me and Mike had packed our sumartran coffee in the bottem of our rucksacks. Only coffee i promise but the bloody was wrapped up in plastic and looked like a flippin bag of you know what. I can ...

... de Passage auszufuellen und zu stempeln hatte - obwohl East Timor nicht als Carnet Land v**m**kt ist. Danach **oeffnete sich ein fast menschenle**es und bettelarmes, ab** unglaublich freundliches Land mit fantastischen Landschaften und imm**-laechelnden Einheimischen. An menschenle**en Straenden und vom Tourismus unb**uehrt ging es nach Dili. In Dili wurde in d** einzigen, ab** ganz sympatischen billig- Unt**kunft East Timor ...

... strasne pratelsti. Jediny duvod proc je tu. polamal se mu laptot a musel letet pes celou Indii sem , snad mu ho spravi. Je profesionalni fotograf pro The Times v Londyne. tak jsem dali pivko a poklabosili. a posledni den, je ztravial jak jinak nez finalnimi nakupy. Uz jsem musela pouzivat kreditku.hmm. Tak ted to musim nejak sbalit a Gulf air to musi dopravit domu. Rano v 5.30na letiste, let je planovan na 8.30.

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 the several refugee camps set up by the UN around the city. The gangs engage in street fights, usually not with knives or guns thank goodness, but with stones. She said ...

... away. A few days later, sat in Edwin's (Edwin is a travellers legend in this neck of the woods, just look in the 'thankyou' section at the start of the Lonely Planet guidebooks) cafe in Kupang, West Timor, we met our friend Ricardo. Ricardo had been staying in the Dili guest house with us and was due to leave about a week after we were unceremoniously told to bugger off with our visas. Just before he left Dili he had been ...

... to Bali, which I couldn't do, or they wanted to experience Timorese Christmas. Which in my town was just a traditional Catholic Christmas. We went to a night service on Christmas Eve and they told the story of Jesus. It was both beautiful and silly. For example, when they rang the bells and lit the candles and sang praise to Jesus they also has a bullhorn with a siren that they used, because they think it sounds pretty. And the language is very simple, so when a group of hundreds ...

... dan eksotikanya tidak akan berubah, apalagi lifestyle masyarakatnya akan terasa berbeda dari kehidupan masyarakat Indonesia pada umumnya, itu sudah terasa jauh sebelum Timor Leste menjadi negara tersendiri..<br><br>Sayang, album-album foto kami hilang saat mengungsi tahun 1999, mungkin kami hanya boleh mengenang dalam hati dan ingatan kami saja, dan semoga kami dapat berkunjung lagi kesana dan melakukan 'napak tilas' kehidupan kami yang tidak akan kami lupakan.<br>