Early morning again, and this time I finally manage to oversleep and thus have to hurry outside to the car. Soon we are on the way to Maliana. The main road follows the coast, snaking around ridges and mountains and offering some great views. The hills and mountains are dry and dusty, their colours mainly orange and brown, scattered with pale trees. There is a good lookout point not far from Dili from where you can occasionally see dolphins play in the shallows beneath. Some parts of the road was constructed by the Japanese during the occupation years and is generally in good condition although it can easily inspire to motion sickness. The route is mainly travelled by larger buses, some mikrolets and the occasional car. Except of course for when the road passes through one
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