Hotel Timor

... 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 ...

... in Timor-Leste.  Originally from New Zealand, he served in Timor in 2000 during the height of the fighting between Indonesia and Timor-Leste.  He was a fascinating person to talk to and gave us some very practical advice.  Namely, do not go ...

... believe me, refer to my previous blog entry for thorough convincing. You would assume that in a place as undeveloped as East Timor, especially being in Southeast Asia, that traveling would come at bargain basement prices. This is not the case! The large ...

... of Maubisse is a small mountain enclave near the center of the country that is nestled into a valley about 3 kilometers across.  The hotel I stayed at was clearly the nicest building in town and was perched on top of a small hill in the center of the ...

... 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 ...

... , 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 ...

... sets around 6:30 Things that should stay the same – wherever we are Cool time, pool time. Here it has been the pool at Hotel Timor which has been great – in Bali we are at least staying at the hotel rather than just sneaking in the back door ...

... booked our Bus to Kupang and Me,Mike and Stef hit the road through flores towards Bali. Overall a real experiance here in East timor the people are extreamly genuine and have the  real flair about themselves maybe that is a throwback to the days when ...

... having to trek 20 minutes across town on foot to my air-conditioned office with water cooler and filter coffee machine (East Timor coffee is highly recommended), where I have been learning the intricacies of EU bureaucracy and why it costs so much money ...

... Another good thing about living by myself is that the people in my community see that I am not like the other foreigners in Timor. They see that I don't have fancy furniture or American food. I eat the same things they eat and if anything they have ...

... that two men had been hacked to death with machetes and their homes burned down. Jan. 23, 2007 Tuesday, Maya Beach Hotel, Kupang, West Timor, Indonesia [GPS 10 09.408S 123 35.121E] From Dili we took a Paradise Tours bus across the Indonesian ...

... . 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 ...

... and destroyed. We drove out to the village of Baccoi where most of the town had been burned out. Deb called it the Mogadishu of Timor Leste. She repeatedly referred to the UN presence as a "full on mission". She had been here for 8 months and we we're ...

... interessanten Kontinent - und es gaebe noch viel viel mehr zu sehen hier - machen wir uns morgen auf nach 'Down Under'. WEST TIMOR Kupang Our flight from Flores to West Timor leaves from Ende at 1 pm. Ridiculously we have to check in two hours ...

... The memorial had a large flat screen television sitting unsecured that showed the lack of security and limited problems with stealing of Timor.  After checking out the memorial we scooted back down into Dili, hitting speeds upwards of 45+km/h in ...

... in function, others barely on the way of distruction. There is not so much to do. Foreigner living in Timor use Baucau as a weekend trip because of its good hotel Flamboyant and the nice beach. For me it was a nice view inside the live of Timorese people ...

... it was, a 4 wheel drive is the only way to get there at the moment.   May 20th marks Independence Day for East Timor – and so Thursday was a national holiday, with the people of Dili taking to the street for the celebrations. Liz and I made ...