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The "city of peace" to be
... walk the hot and dusty streets to find a place to take the demanded red picture. Several people on the street greeted me kindly, and completely overloaded minibuses passed, with young men sticking out of the doors, doing an amazing job not falling down. The official language spoken was Portuguese, and I managed to say "bom dia" and "obrigada" to the people in the photo shop. There was also an option to take a picture with a light blue background, which might be ...
Last day in Timor Leste
Timor Leste is almost over on my trip. It was definitely a good time, but a short time. I like the natural, non touristic live here. Of course the country is very low developed, and every developement is highly appreciated. But so far this was for me a great experience to be in such a young nation, a nation which is on the way to build up the independent ...
Flores and East Timor 2005
... girl, a highly educated mother and daughter from Portland, Australia) and partly because of East Timor’s amazing recent history. This was truly the most stimulating – in the educational sense – holiday I have had for a long time.
Dili, is an odd place – along with Managua and Lilongwe, the most listless, unimpressive capital city I have ever visited. The UN fatcats are ubiquitous – riding around in their flashy vehicles, filling ...
Dili
... us on a ride the next morning with a group of local mountain bikers and he invited us along. The Dr also invited us to his house for dinner that night which we happily accepted.
We then went and checked out the Santa Cruz cemetery - the location of the 92 Santa Cruz massacres. The cemetery was unique with every single available section of ground turned into a grave. We also saw the monument to the deceased from the massacre.
Then off to ...
On the road again
... Indonesia has a lot to live up to
Food that is only identified when it is eaten – and sometimes not even then
Interesting people – there are some great people here in Timor and everybody has something about them before they end up here – and we hope there will be more of the same in the next few weeks. I don't think we'll ever see a pub quiz quite like the one organized here by Tracey though which will be a shame.
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