Hotel Timor Dili

... 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 ...

... that means we're settled, or it means that we've been to busy to have possibly only been here a week. Dili is the largest city in East Timor, but resembles any small town in a developing country – apart from the massive numbers of UN vehicles that ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

At 8am we met Judy and Judith out the front of the Venture Hotel and waited for our driver and vehicle to arrive.  In TMT time the driver and the Land Rover Discovery arrived (some time after 8:45am) then off we set towards Balibo. The roads to the ...

... ;s not much there anyway, except what some enterprising Chinese have had time to accumulate.  I ended up in a Chinese-run hotel at $25 per night, expensive by Indonesian standards, considering that it’s pretty much just a box with satellite ...

... 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 ...