Timor Lodge Hotel Dili

Comoro Road, Near the airport Dili, Timor-Leste

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The "city of peace" to be

A travel blog entry by sonjamargarethe

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... and snacks such as Bananas dangling from both ends. Along the water there was a market where fish was put out for sale on long tables in the heat of the day. The vendors permanently swept thin plastic bags on sticks over the fish to scare away hundreds of flies. There were fresh coconuts for sale, and chicken were running around randomly. As walking next to a busy football pitch, I was approached by a local boy, Afen, who said he wanted to practise his English with ...

Welcome to Timor Leste

A travel blog entry by groundhopper

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... is normal, not touristically organized. Travelling in Timor Leste means travelling like the locals. Of course I support developement, and it is highly necessary in Timor Leste, but still everybody can experience the nature of an low developed country without focus on tourist.

Dili, the capital, it small with around 130000 inhabitants. Every place can be reached by ...

Flores and East Timor 2005

A travel blog entry by mulqueen

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... language is now being pushed as the lingua franca of the new nation, and, not surprisingly, nobody wants to learn it. The people all speak a colloquial language called Tetum. They also speak Indonesian, which is probably doomed to die out in the next decade.

The currency of East Timor is the US dollar, which is one reason why prices – especially in Dili – are so steep. The contrast between Indonesian prices – super-low – and East ...

Dili

A travel blog entry by timorbikerboys

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... 45.

We then grabbed some lunch and looked for the coffee place. After riding down one street both Graham and I got a whiff of coffee and like dogs we followed our noses back to a location where there was a security guard on a gate. After asking about coffee we were pointed into the centre of a cluster of industrial buildings. We followed the smell and came to a small house in the centre of the industrial area and discovered on looking inside that this ...

On the road again

A travel blog entry by joetwinn

2

... the dogs here are fairly small)

7 weeks off work – woohoo. (I know work was in my original list of things we'd miss, but we have both been getting up in the mornings and trying to achieve something till now)

Things we'd like to miss but will stay the same all the way home

Malaria tables – they still taste horrible

Biting insects – mostly unidentified

Cockroaches – especially the ones that are large ...