Tag: Atauro Island

• How to get to Atauro Island

  

  I’ve just returned from a beautiful, lazy week away at Atauro Island, which sits 30 nautical miles off Timor-Leste’s north coast. Without slipping too far into hyperbole, it’s an absolute must-visit for every Dili tourist: a beatific island paradise where the diving’s world-class, the beaches white sand and the coconuts just 50c. I’ve lived in…

  Sophie

  April 8, 2018

  Observations about Dili, Trips out of Dili

  Asia, Atauro Island, Dili, South-East Asia, Timor-Leste, Travel

• A weekend at Atauro

  

  When I came to Timor on a work trip in October 2016, I visited Atauro Island – a palm-fringed oasis, all wooden canoes on glassy seas and fresh-cut coconuts and tiny pocketed mountain villages and rat-rat-rat tuk tuks on dusty empty roads. As I sat at the back of the boat on the return trip…

  Sophie

  April 17, 2017

  Thinking, Trips out of Dili

  Atauro, Atauro Island, diving, scuba, Timor-Leste, Travel