Hotel Dili

... con l'esito schiacciante a favore dell'indipendenza, hanno lasciato il paese non prima di aver distrutto il 90% delle infrastrutture e massacrato o deportato migliaia di persone. E' una citta' carissima, quasi a livelli europei, ma non si fatica a capire il perche', vista la quantita' di occidentali che ci lavorano. E mi sembra decisamente un dovere per noi europei essere qui per tentare di aiutare questa gente visto che, come per la stragrande maggioranza dei casini ...

... from around the world to relax. Of course, this cannot happen unless the country stabilizes. My assessment of the current political situation is that the new government is serious about improving their country's economic and political environment. The people are certainly hoping for that to happen. Hopefully when I come back - and I will - there will be less people in the streets and tents, and certainly no more international police filling up the hotels and cafe's.

... in Indonesia we were straight through with the now well heeled comment about my name and manchester (Nothing to do with the fact he is a right tubber) We got to the East Timorese side of the workings and were given a real reminder about how new this country really is. The Border post was pained on the ground and the imagration was a caravan. Commander Genral Travolta immagrasi as it said on his badge gave me the once over took my passport and asked ...

... in Indonesia we were straight through with the now well heeled comment about my name and manchester (Nothing to do with the fact he is a right tubber) We got to the East Timorese side of the workings and were given a real reminder about how new this country really is. The Border post was pained on the ground and the imagration was a caravan. Commander Genral Travolta immagrasi as it said on his badge gave me the once over took my passport and asked ...

... or Smoke House Backpack**s) at the main road (Almirante Rua de Thomas Am**ico 231) and cleaned the bikes th**e for days by hand as th**e was no highpressure clean** found around. The load into contain** and transport was dealed by SDV Logistics (Rua Presidente Nicolau Lobato, Tel: +670 33 22 818) and will leave Dili at 9.8. - if th**e is no crisis before! Myself will fly by Air North at 6.8. to Darwin. All togeth** for almost 500 USD.

... Arvid climbed down into the gulch. Then people started to gather. He was able to untangle the cord and free the goat's neck just as its eyes rolled back and it died. A very disturbing pre-lunch affair. Lunch at the Pousade did not go much better. They had an extensive menu of Portuguese dishes. But they didn't have anything we selected from the menu. Finally the manager suggested their specials for the day: beef in mushroom sauce ...

Jan. 17, 2007 Wednesday We arrived in Dili on Saturday morning. We had to wait until Monday for the Indonesian embassy to open so we could get our visas. We were there bright and early, but after taking our passports and application we were told it would take 7 days to get our visas. We were told to come back at the 3 PM on the following Monday. Actually our guidebook had said it would take 7 days to get the Indonesian visa but the Aussies at our hotel were sure we could get it ...

Jan. 13, 2007 Dili, Timor Leste (East Timor) 08 32.936S 125 35.204E We are now in the third world. There wasn't any gradual transition; as soon as we stepped off the plane it hit us. The immigration officer lost some of our papers as soon as we gave them to him, but it didn't seem to matter. The only customs inspection was to say that we had nothing to declare. The airport toilets had no seats, were unflushed and no toilet paper. A country this beaten up and poor can't be ...

... to bring it to them. And since most of them live in Dili they are used to cooking with gas and having electricity and when they get here they have to cook over the fire all day and haul water and such. I tried to help them out as much as I could but they don't like me doing anything like that because I will get dirty or tired. All of my sisters are going to school to get real jobs so that they will not have to get married because they don't want to be a Timorese wife. The ...

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 recent struggle for independence. About a third of the population was murdered by the inodnesians (200,000 people roughly), which explains the lack of people in the ...