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World Tour: East Timor
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"IMG_0570.jpg" "Welcome to East Timor"
"IMG_0573.jpg" "The 'newest country in the world'"
"IMG_0579.jpg" "After having received independence from Indonesia"
"IMG_0578.jpg" "An obnoxious UN corrupts Dili"
"IMG_0589.jpg" "US Embassy under construction"
"IMG_0591.jpg" "Dili beach"
"IMG_0594.jpg" "We may no longer be in Indonesia, but it sure sounds like it (indo-equalized no midrange)"
"IMG_0595.jpg" "Motorbike to Maubisse"
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"IMG_0602.jpg" "Maubisse in the valley"
"IMG_0605.jpg" "town cemetary"
"IMG_0606.jpg" "East Timor is predominantly Christian (it was once a colony of Portugal)"
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"IMG_0603.jpg" "Cockfights, the only thing of interest in town"
"IMG_0617.jpg" "Store girl"
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"IMG_0650.jpg" "Los Palos - A deafly boring town"
"IMG_0629.jpg" "The weekly market is really the only thing of interest"
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"IMG_0639.jpg" "where variety is stark"
"IMG_0640.jpg" "boy on the fence"
"IMG_0645.jpg" "goat on the wall"
"IMG_0647.jpg" "writing on the wall (a bit of independence era hatred still exists)"
"IMG_0654.jpg" "waiting for the bus (2 per day)"
"IMG_0657.jpg" "without the option of a ride I trekked across the countryside to Fuiloro"
"IMG_0663.jpg" "traditional house enroute"
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"IMG_0666.jpg" "Thanks to the Tutuala gang for the hitch"
"IMG_0667.jpg" "Camped out at Tutuala"
"IMG_0668.jpg" "Tutuala - That's about it"
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"IMG_0674.jpg" "again, without the option for a ride I take the long walk to Mehara"
"IMG_0677.jpg" "Lautem - Typical town typically abandoned"
"IMG_0681.jpg" "Com Beach play mates"
"IMG_0690.jpg" "Climbing the old tamarind tree"
"IMG_0693.jpg" "Fishing for tuna"
"IMG_0705.jpg" "Bacau - on my way back to Dili"
"IMG_0703.jpg" "A town exhibiting the heavy portuguese influence"
"IMG_0726.jpg" "the old central market"
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"IMG_0712.jpg" "and the scars of independence"
"IMG_0718.jpg" "Che - communist model of resistance"
"IMG_0720.jpg" "still a popular figure"
"IMG_0715.jpg" "and like all other towns in East Timor, abandon"
"IMG_0730.jpg" "My ride back to Dili"
"IMG_0733.jpg" "Back in Dili"
"IMG_0737.jpg" "Jesus on the hill"
"IMG_0742.jpg" "Offers the people hope for the future"
"IMG_0738.jpg" "What Jesus sees"
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"IMG_0763.jpg" "Over the mountains and far away with Neil of London after deciding to give Timor another chance"
"IMG_0771.jpg" "The monkey man"
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"IMG_0773.jpg" "Church of Lete Foho"
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"IMG_0781.jpg" "another brilliant smile"
"IMG_0784.jpg" "slaughterhouse in the hills"
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"IMG_0788.jpg" "head butcher"
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"IMG_0793.jpg" "harry potter"
"IMG_0795.jpg" "and wife"
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"IMG_0796.jpg" "After dropping off Neil I stop to admire the view on the return to Dili"
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"IMG_0799.jpg" "East Timor is beautiful sunsets"
"IMG_0801.jpg" "Fishing village enroute to Metinaro"
"IMG_0802.jpg" "The perfect papaya, .10"
"IMG_0804.jpg" "fisherboy"
"IMG_0807.jpg" "the great shark hunter"
"IMG_0808.jpg" "Needless to say the trip improved vastly after dropping off the POM"
"IMG_0810.jpg" "very similar to the Australian outback with gum trees"
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"IMG_0815.jpg" "Oecussi - the world's smallest 'port'"
"IMG_0816.jpg" "A brilliant market in Tono near the Indonesian border"
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"IMG_0826.jpg" "amazingly they still trade in guilders"
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"IMG_0838.jpg" "PELNI - One of the true wonders of the world"
"IMG_0841.jpg" "On my way to Sulawesi..."
"IMG_0854.jpg" "to wait 2 weeks for a 3-day trip on a cot in the basement of a cockroach infested boat all for only $10 less then a flight"
"IMG_0846.jpg" "Atleast there is an onboard mosque"
"IMG_0855.jpg" "If your lucky you'll get a fishhead (I shit you not, this was dinner)"