East Timor

Route taken and entries by Real Traveler MickyS

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   Slap in the Face

   Dili, East Timor | Oct 05 '09 | Reviews: 1

   Travel is the process wherein reality converges with fiction. We bring our stories, fantasies and wild imagination to bear on the necessity of maki... Continue reading »

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   A welcome Change

   Aileu, East Timor | Oct 09 '09 | Reviews: 1

   Some days the experiences of travel are too new and too fresh for words. Still, not to find the words is to risk having the experience and missing... Continue reading »

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   Inside-out

   Aileu, East Timor | Oct 14 '09 | Reviews: 0

   It's been a strange and humbling week. Thank goodness for that. Finally, having conquered fears and insecurities, I know that I do have something t... Continue reading »

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   Pousada

   Maubisse, East Timor | Oct 17 '09 | Reviews: 1

   At the top of the hill sits the old Pousada, steeped in reminiscence of a time before independence and occupation. It recollects a colonial grandeu... Continue reading »

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   Dili to Baucau

   Baucau, East Timor | Oct 30 '09 | Reviews: 1

    

   For about 120 kilometres east of Dili, the winding coast road snakes its way towards the old Portuguese town of Baucau. With only a... Continue reading »

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   Baucau to Viqueque

   Viqueque, East Timor | Oct 31 '09 | Reviews: 1

    

   The sun is slowly setting and dances through the trees, casting shadows on the mountainside. I sit on my veranda and watch, as the t... Continue reading »

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   Betano Beach

   Betano, East Timor | Nov 01 '09 | Reviews: 1

    

   The afternoon has grown old, into the evening, like the memories of a place in the imagination. As I sit here in my hotel in the mou... Continue reading »

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   Motorbike Madness in Maubise

   Maubisse, East Timor | Nov 02 '09 | Reviews: 0

    

   For at least the last two weeks, I've been quite happy to give myself a wrap over my burgeoning skills as an Indonesian speaker. Lan... Continue reading »

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