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Tag: Timor-Leste

  • Sixty Miles per Day

    The other day we received our postcard from Timor Leste. We mailed it on December 6th in 2013, so it took about 134 days. The distance from Dili to Hamburg is 7734 miles as the crow flies, which works out to about 60 miles per day. Going from New York to San Francisco in the 1860s the Pony Express travelled at 258 miles…

  • House with a View

    Skulls dangling, spears sharpened, high above the ground life is better as python’s won’t disturb your sleep and climbing up and down will keep you fit and your senses alert. A chicken next to your bed will wake you when it’s time and the eggs will be very fresh. We remain humbled by the spirit…

  • Driven by Destiny

    The building was first constructed as a warehouse by the Portuguese colonists. During the Indonesian occupation it served as a military post. Now it is hosting an English school financed by a Malaysian, Cambodian and Thai NGO. The teachers are mainly from Timor-Leste supported by some native speakers. (c) Travelina

  • The Future is Soccer

    In Timor-Leste as anywhere else in the world. (c) Travelina

  • Dili Skyline

    As the former Portuguese colony and formerly Indonesian occupied territory Timor Leste is the eastern part of the eastern (relative to Indonesia) island ‘Timor’, it is called Timor (‘east’ in Indonesian) Leste (from ‘east’ in Portuguese). Got it?

  • A Day in Dili

  • It’s a Miracle

    Timor-Leste the country were Guerrilla fighters hiding in the jungle for 24 years are now the government; that had been caught between global politics for 400 years; which was loosing 50% of population over and over by never starting a conflict themselves. But now the future looks bright with democracy, earnings from oil, best organic…