Tourists - an unknown species East Timor is the place to go if you like to travel to foreign countries but you don't like tourism (which seems to be a wide spread attitude of independent travellers). Tourism in East Timor is not well organised, if you measure with Indonesian standards, and if you take New Zealand's tourist industry as comparison, tourism in East Timor is non-existent. When we arrived at the outskirts of Dili coming from the Indonesian border, our taxi driver got a bit nervous when the police stopped the car. passports, please. What nationality are you? What business?? tourists?! Ah, well, go ahead. Dili is definitely the place you have to start your East Timor journey. Here you find accommodation, food and transport, the basic needs which are rare in other parts of the
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