Tag: Atauro

• Adara dive trip

  

  I was out of Dili again this weekend, on a diving trip to Atauro Island. About an hour’s fast boat ride away from Dili, Atauro is home to some of the world’s most biodiverse coral reefs, which sit beneath pebbly, palm-fringed beach under a sky seeming endlessly blue. It’s hopelessly indulgent to write this, but…

  Sophie

  July 5, 2017

  Thinking, Trips out of Dili

  Adara, Atauro, Dili, diving, expat, living abroad, privilege, reef, reflection, scuba diving, 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