Hotel Dili Timor Leste

... dairy farmer, a brainy young English 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 ...

January 4-11, 2012 Landing in Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste gave us an immediate sense of the state of things in this small country.  There were several UN helicopters and trucks parked at the airport and a crowd of Timorese people hanging onto a ...

... , in the area of rural water supply and sanitation. The purpose of this program is to help build the capacity of the Timor-Leste government in the provision of water supply and sanitation services. The team will be working with the Ministry of Health ...

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 ...

... they deliver c. 100 babies a month and see up to 300 patients every day, coming with a variety of illnesses and injuries. The Timor-Leste health service is improving, but the legend of Dr. Dan and the fact that he doesn't charge for anything means that ...

... was before the days of Air Asia, the very successful budget carrier, so flights are not cheap, least of all the spur to Timor Leste on Merpati, an Indonesian airline, owned by the enemy. Judging by the state of the plane's interior, they indeed may be ...

... my time getting wet and looking for the nearest facility. Yah, it ain’t the Ritz. The more interesting part of East Timor is going beyond Dili and exploring the countryside. This, as they say, is the real East Timor. I’ve never understood this ...

... for going to East Timor NOW – before tourism starts big-time. An ongoing feature of the holiday was East Timor’s tragic recent history. Everywhere we saw ruined buildings – ruined by the Indonesian soldiers and the local militias in ...

... off to the CHEGA prison and we found out about the torture and stories of the prison when the Indonesians ruled East Timor. We then headed down into downtown Dili to buy some Tias and find a coffee place we had been told about.  The Tias market was ...

... . In a very short summary the Portuguese ran the place for 500 years and did nothing for the people or the infrastructure. East Timor declared independence from Portugal on Nov 28, 1975 and 10 days later Indonesia troops invaded. Over the next 24 years a ...

... Dili and the other local sights. That evening we met a nun Joan who works for Caritas but has lived in East Timor on and off for years.  Joan had some extremely interesting stories relating to the 1999 upheaval and her involvement in recovering some ...