{"id":728,"date":"2012-09-09T22:51:09","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T14:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walkabout.be\/?p=728"},"modified":"2026-06-16T20:38:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:38:59","slug":"border-crossing-australia-to-timor-leste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkabout.be\/?p=728","title":{"rendered":"Border Crossing : Australia to Timor Leste"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">9 September 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just a quick note, to remind myself, or potential readers, about the crossing over to Timor Leste from Darwin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; Make sure everything is packed in closed and locked compartments if you are not shipping with a container. The shipping crew WILL go through your car and take whatever they feel like. Of value, or not (such as &#8220;happy face&#8221; magnets in Sander&#8217;s case, or a tablet PC in mine).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; Insist with Toll there is a larger container than the one they offer, and your troopie WILL fit inside.<br>&#8211; Don&#8217;t bother with quarantine, there is no checking in Dili, so pack your muesli and other goodies cos you won&#8217;t find them until you&#8217;re in Malaysia.<br>&#8211; Dili is the last place you can find a gas bottle with the Australian standard (screw type), anywhere in Asia is the clip-on type. Forget about gas cooking or change your system (we use wood fire every night though).<br>&#8211; Be in Dili as soon as the ship docks, the custom process is very straightforward, and you will get out of the harbor in two hours max.<br>&#8211; There is no inspection on either side, by either the customs of Toll, so hide your &#8220;dangerous goods&#8221; well enough but don&#8217;t bother too much (sprays such as WD40, oil, deodorant, gas cannisters, etc).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9 September 2012 Just a quick note, to remind myself, or potential readers, about the crossing over to Timor Leste from Darwin. &#8211; Make sure everything is packed in closed and locked compartments if you are not shipping with a container. The shipping crew WILL go through your car and take whatever they feel, <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/walkabout.be\/?p=728\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[188,6],"tags":[160,114,159],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-trip-planning","tag-australia","tag-border-crossing","tag-timor-leste"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p27S7o-bK","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkabout.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Dili.jpg?fit=1200%2C715&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkabout.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkabout.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkabout.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkabout.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkabout.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/walkabout.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47750,"href":"https:\/\/walkabout.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/47750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkabout.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkabout.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkabout.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkabout.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}