Tag: South-East Asia
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A Dili survival guide
I’ve had a few friends visit me since I moved to Timor-Leste, I’m hoping for more (hint), and I thought it’d be useful to both my prospective visitors and perhaps you to put together a short survival guide for a first few days in Dili. Can you drink the water? How do you get a…
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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…
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How I shop in Timor-Leste markets
A few small words that helped me last year: satu, dua, tiga, empat, lima. Like Latin proverb they may look, they’re actually the numbers one to five in Bahasa Indonesia, and the key that unlocked the magic of Timor-Leste market shopping for me. Any visitor to Dili will come across the fruit market at Lecidere,…
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Everything we didn’t do in Maubisse
I’ve written before about how much I love the dreamy, mountain town of Maubisse, which sits just 30 kilometres inland of Dili in Ainaro municipality. With Timor’s wind-ey, potholed roads, it can take up to four hours to reach Maubisse by car, and the town thus feels like a real holiday spot: where 30km is…
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Timor’s best weekend away?
It might just be in Dili. This is a post for friends coming to visit Timor-Leste, and for newly-arrived foreigners being urged to see the country. Our starting point may well be closer than we think. Last weekend, I accidentally had something of a holiday in and around Dili, and it ended up being one…
Sophie Rai Liur 