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29 June 2012
The island of Atauro lies some 30km north of Dili, on a good day you can actually see it from the city. There are a few ways to get there, some cost five dollars (the ferry, only on Saturday and tickets are sold out in half an hour) some cost 45 dollars (water taxis, run by Aussies). Another way is to get there with the fishermen.
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29 June 2012
Tonight we’ll be spending our last night in TL, we should cross the Indonesian border tomorrow lunchtime. It’s sad we have to leave on such short notice but Claire has some commitments in New Caledonia she can’t miss, namely, her mum 🙂 So she’ll fly off from Kupang on the 9th, giving us one week to enjoy “West Timor”.
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26 June 2012
June 15th-19th
So we arrived at the backpackers around 9AM. There’s limited choice when it comes to lodging in Dili. There’s a couple of hotels, ranging from 100AUD to 500AUD per night, or the backpackers, the only one in fact, for 25 dollars a night (this includes air-conditioning and a fan, with shared bathroom). Quickly, we make our way to the port, hoping to find Toll (aka Perkins). You have to remember, and I’m quoting the Lonely Planet, street names and house numbers are a concept.
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