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	<title>dutchpickle &#187; East Timor</title>
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		<title>Peace Brother Henry of Dili</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Henry Koby of Dili, East Timor Henry made the world a better place for a lot of people. He helped many Timorese through some difficult times &#8230;and he was able to make money at the same time! Think about it &#8211; a budget Backpackers Guesthouse for penny pinching travelers in Dili? It just didn&#8217;t make [...]]]></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 prison &#8211; East Timor An abandoned prison just outside of Pante Makassar in Oecussi is a reminder of Indonesian 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dutchpickle.com/east-timor/oecussi/oecussi-prison.html</link>
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		<title>Spent round</title>
		<description><![CDATA[12 gage shotgun shell I found this spent 12 gage shotgun shell while walking alongside the road in Comoro near the Landmark Plaza on Oct 27 2006. Stabilized bean bag empty shotgun shell. I don&#8217;t know if it means anything but it was 2 days after a big stone throwing riot in the same area. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dutchpickle.com/east-timor/dili-turmoil/spent-round.html</link>
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		<title>Overland by Motorbike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Overland from Gibraltor &#8211; to Timor Dec 2006 Linda came to Kupang overland from Spain on a heavily loaded Suzuki 650. For a full account of her trip take a look 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dutchpickle.com/east-timor/dili-area/overland.html</link>
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		<title>Dili to Kupang</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dili to 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 truck. For 18 dollars Timor Travel will pick you up and drop you off at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dutchpickle.com/east-timor/dili-area/dili-to-kupang.html</link>
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		<title>Pasabe Oecussi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pasabe district &#8211; Oecussi &#8211; East Timor The people living in Pasabe scratch out a living by farming under harsh conditions. The dry season is difficult and when it rains the rivers fill and further isolate the villages. The few vehicles that travel there often use the dry riverbeds as roads. Oecussi  is the perfect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dutchpickle.com/east-timor/oecussi/pasabe.html</link>
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		<title>Rivers of Oecussi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oecussi rivers &#8211; rainy season Oecussi is usually very dry but when the rainy season starts many of the rivers swell and make travel difficult. These people just deal with it and just wait for the river level to drop and then resume business as usual. Some communities can be cut off for several weeks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dutchpickle.com/east-timor/oecussi/rivers.html</link>
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		<title>dec17 2006 unrest in Dili</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Growing tension Tension in 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 Kiwis. Sensing trouble I grabbed my camera and headed out to see if anything developed. I could [...]]]></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 Same &#8211; East Timor 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 exception. That really struck me while traveling around the country. Sui in the south, Oecussi, Dili, Baucau, Los Palos, Lautem, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dutchpickle.com/east-timor/maubisee/maubisse-to-same.html</link>
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		<title>The Horse Races in Tasitolu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jockeys of East Timor The Timorese people are nuts for horse racing. The jockeys thunder around the track riding bareback on these fine looking horses. Horse races in 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 [...]]]></description>
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