Category Timor Leste
Planning a trip to Timor Leste
Timor Leste is very much off the beaten track. It is South East Asia’s newest country, with Timor Leste only gaining it’s full independence in 2002 after the Indonesian Invasion in 1975. After two weeks in the country, I only met two other tourists. TWO! I met a lot of Malay’s (foreigners) working in Dili […]
Off the beaten track in Timor Leste
Timor Leste (or East Timor) – heard of it? No? It’s not a country on many people’s radar. Here’s my very basic summary of the countries history that I’ve learnt since arriving. It was a Portuguese colony from the 16th century, which takes up half of the island Timor, in South East Asia, the other […]
Watson's Wanderlust 