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	<title>dutchpickle &#187; East Timor</title>
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		<title>Peace Brother</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Henry Koby of Dili, East&#160;Timor
Henry made the world a better place for a lot of&#160;people.
He helped many Timorese through some difficult&#160;times
&#8230;and he was able to make money at the same&#160;time!
Think about it - a budget Backpackers Guesthouse  for penny pinching travelers in Dili? It just didn&#8217;t make sense, but Henry made it&#160;work.
&#8230;every square inch of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dutchpickle.com/east-timor/dili-town/peace-brother.html</link>
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		<title>Oecussi prison</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oecussi&#160;prison
An abandoned prison just outside of Pante Makassar in Oecussi is a reminder of Indonesian&#160;times.
I don&#8217;t have the full history on it but the general consensus is that is was pretty full under the Indonesian administration.

 If I get the chance to talk to Father Richard maybe he can give a better idea what that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dutchpickle.com/east-timor/oecussi/oecussi-prison.html</link>
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		<title>Spent round</title>
		<description><![CDATA[12&#160;gage
I found this spent 12 gage shotgun shell while walking alongside the road in Comoro near the Landmark Plaza on Oct 27 2006.


I don&#8217;t know if it means anything but it was 2 days after a big stone throwing riot in the same area. One of the rioters landed up dead and a lot of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dutchpickle.com/east-timor/dili-turmoil/spent-round.html</link>
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		<title>Overland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Motorbike
Overland from Gibraltor - Dec&#160;2006
Linda came to Kupang overland from Spain on a heavily loaded Suzuki&#160;650.
For a full account of her trip take a look&#160;here:
www.haefale.de/linda/index.html
She was on her way to Dili where she planned to ship her bike to Darwin by boat using Perkins, an agent in&#160;Dili.
 There is an Australian company that ships vehicles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dili to Kupang</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dili to&#160;Kupang
 The trip from Dili to Kupang takes 12 to 14 hours. Travel companies make the trip every day with mini buses but they were booked through Christmas so I caught a lift in the back of a&#160;truck.
 For 18 dollars Timor Travel will pick you up and drop you off at your destination [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pasabe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pasabe district -&#160;Oecussi
The people living in Pasabe scratch out a living by farming under harsh&#160;conditions.
The dry season is difficult and when it rains the rivers fill and further isolate the&#160;villages.
The few vehicles that travel there often use the dry riverbeds as&#160;roads.
It is the perfect place for touring by motorbike. There is no benzine so once [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dutchpickle.com/east-timor/oecussi/pasabe.html</link>
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		<title>Rivers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oecussi rivers - rainy&#160;season
 Oecussi is usually very dry but when the rainy season starts many of the rivers swell and make travel&#160;difficult.
 These people just deal with it and just wait for the river level to drop and then resume business as&#160;usual.
 Some communities can be cut off for several weeks when the bigger [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dutchpickle.com/east-timor/oecussi/rivers.html</link>
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		<title>dec17</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Growing&#160;tension
 Tension in&#160;Dili
 There is a growing anti-Australian sentiment in Dili and the rest of the country right now. Yesterday there was a funeral procession that was escorted by a large group of GRN police and&#160;Kiwis.
 Sensing trouble I grabbed my camera and headed out to see if anything&#160;developed.
 I could feel more tension [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dutchpickle.com/east-timor/dili-town/dec17.html</link>
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		<title>Maubisse to Same</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The village of&#160;Same
 There are no places in East Timor where you will not come across the remnants of the destruction that swept across the country in 1999. Same is no&#160;exception.
 That really struck me while traveling around the&#160;country.
 Sui in the south, Oecussi, Dili, Baucau, Los Palos, Lautem, Maliana, anywhere the Indonesians had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dutchpickle.com/east-timor/maubisee/maubisse-to-same.html</link>
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		<title>The Horse Races</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jockeys
The Timorese people are nuts for horse racing. The jockeys thunder around the track riding bareback on these fine looking&#160;horses.
Horse races in&#160;Dili
If you leave Dili going west on a Sunday and glance off the the left you might notice the horses racing around an oval track at&#160;Tasitolu.
There are some good looking ponies being raced bareback [...]]]></description>
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