East Timor - I was there before it became big.

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February 17th 2009

Published: February 17th 2009

Most of this was written yesterday, 16 Feb 2009, or the day before All backpackers express a desire to get “off the beaten track”, which isn’t always as great an idea as it sounds, because the reason a track is beaten in the first place is because it leads to a nice or interesting place. But still, it’s an alluring dream. In my opinion, there’s two ways to get off the beaten track. O... Read Full Entry

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Daniel Gerber

Drinkthewater

UPDATE (April 2013) This site was the blog I kept for my long-term travels, mainly through Asia, in 2009-2010. I'm not maintaining it any more. I've done numerous trips since then but haven't kept them on this blog. I did run my own blog for a year but unfortunately lost that data. END UPDATE For those who're not familiar with blogs, note that this part is only my profile, the blog entries are linked from the bottom of this page (or subscribe, so you'll always know when I have a new one) Having always dreamed about travel, previously mainly done it as three-week or four-week sort... full info

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Dili stadium - 8

I think this says something like "Democracy helps in the development of the participation of women"

Dili stadium - 9

Dili stadium - 10

inside the entrance

me from the base of the Cristo Rei statue

Augusto

the guy who walked along with me to the Cristo Rei statue

Cristo Rei

East Timor is a very Catholic country.

Cristo Rei

it was hard to get back far enough to take a photo to show how large the statue was. Also my photos weren't much good because of the midday sun.

Augusto - 2

from the Cristo Rei statue again

beach

still from the cristo rei statue

dili

from the cristo rei statue looking out towards dili

scaffolding

scaffolding for the work on the statue

recycling

I don't know why this house has such a huge collection of junk metal in their back yard.

crabs

These guys were so proud of their crabs, think they were trying to sell me some

crabs again

18th February 2009

Elizabeth
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Awesome
Loved reading your blog entry, the photos are excellent. Hope you feel better.

10th April 2009

Cathy
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Interesting to read your blog on current situation in ET. I was there in 2005, at a time when all seemed to be positive about the future. I think it will be a long time before ET is fully functioning and independent.

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