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Asia » East Timor » Manatuto June 15th 2012

After a good breakfast of banana bread and tea at the guesthouse we headed back to our beach house to pack up and prepare for the wait for a mikrolet back up the hill. We were told they run on the hour first thing in the morning and we were expecting to wait until 9am but no sooner had we packed up one arrived and we headed back up the hill to Baucau bus terminal to get a bus back west to a place called Manatuto. Before our mikrolet had even arrived at the terminal the touts had jumped on asking if we were going to Dili. We negotiated our way onto the bus that looked most likely to leave first and got some good seats with legroom on the back seat, with the window open ... read more
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Asia » East Timor » Manatuto August 10th 2005

My last full day in Timor Leste, and even though I wouldn't mind slacking some more down at the waterfront I pull myself together to make my long overdue daytrip to Baucau. I have decided to try to find a car with driver, and the most obvious choice is grabbing a taxi off the street. The bus is not an option, as my main objective is not really the city of Baucau itself, but a chance to take some photographs along the extraordinary highway along the coast, and there is no way a crowded bus could do me any justice. Manuella gives me a ring at 9 am so I take the opportunity to ask if she knows any agency where I could possibly rent a car with a driver. She advices me to try at ... read more
Heading out of Dili
On the eastern outskirts of town
Sinister camouflage...




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