Tag: Southeast Asia travel
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New, new Dili favourites
At the beginning of this year I made a list of my new favourite places to eat and drink in Dili, a year on from my first round-up list. A hilarious and frank friend told me of that later list, “I thought you were going to say some new places, but they were they same…
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5 (more) things that are better in Timor-Leste
A couple of months ago, I wrote a blog post about the things that made living in Timor-Leste–a tiny, newly independent, post-conflict, drought-stricken country–better and easier than living in Australia. Since then, I’ve seen a few more. 1. A small city flattens formal hierarchies Dili’s relatively small population and its smaller still bunch of foreigners…
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Travelling to Maubisse, Timor-Leste
The town of Maubisse in cloud-wreathed Ainaro municipality is one of my favourite places to visit in Timor-Leste. It’s an easy couple of hours’ drive from Dili, a welcome break from the often-oppressive beachside heat, and a chance to see a different part of Timor-Leste without forcing yourself into a madcap epic adventure you’re not…
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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…
Sophie Rai Liur 