The Rua Beloi
The loseman Rua Beloi is along the river going out of Viqueque to the north.
The owner charges 7.00 a night and gives you bread and coffee in the morning.
He suggested that I put the bike inside the guesthouse for the night.
Pak has 13 kids. He is a cool dude with an American flag painted on the hood of his 4×4.
My Yingaung motorbike had kind of fallen apart and was in need of repairs.
The exhaust pipe came off, the headlight fell off, and it was running dangerously low on oil.
Pak had 5 of his sons come over and work on it. They got a good laugh about my Chinese bike but that bike never let me down yet. It rattles along but seems to keep running.
They rounded up a few spare bolts and got everything going. I got a liter of oil at a shop down the street.
The rooms were not too bad.
I put 2 mattresses on one bed and got a good nights sleep under a mosquito net. There didn’t seem to be very many around.
Across the street is a great little restaurant that served a big plate of buffalo steaks, rice, and vegetables for 2.00 dollars.
It was weird because the place was surrounded with coils of barbed wire. The food was great. Really, really good.
The next day was Sunday so most of the people were dressed in their best clothes and walked to the big churches for services.
I saw one truck full of soldiers with no guns. It is hard to know what is going on sometimes.
Viqueque – East Timor
I like the idea of keeping the motorbike in the room with me ha ha !
…but I believe that being a guest of Pak was probably a good insurance policy that it would be there in the morning even if I had left it outside.
however I did already loose one bike there in Dili :)
dp