Monthly Archives: October 2010

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Timor Leste Cowboys from the Maubissi Highlands

14 - 16 August 2010 S8 83.872 E125 60.340 – Maubisse Highland Maubisse was some six hours drive from Dili. It sounds like a long trip uphill but we stopped a lot along the way. One scene that definitely made us pause was the painful sight of a forest gone and the erosion that took [...]

Making Salt – A Day in The East Timorese Life

8 – 19 August 201 Dili & Maubisse Making Salt When we were told days before that we were going to a place where salt was made, we imagined large, massive salt fields by the sea. There will be a lot of white ponds with salt crystals which could be quite photogenic - or so [...]

Coastal Life in East Timor

8 - 19 August 201 Dili We hardly knew anything about Timor-Leste as we plunged in head first to photograph it. Upon arriving at the airport, we immediately noticed UN presence. There were a lot of men in uniform and loads of vehicles with the UN logo. And yet we were told, their presence had [...]

People of Timor-Leste

8 - 19 August 201 Dili Sometime April this year, we attended ADEX in Singapore. Yogi & I were invited by John Thet, publisher of Asian Geographic Magazine as well as Asian Diver and ScubaDiver Australasia, to give a series of public slideshows on The Coral Triangle.  In one of the days when we were gallivanting around [...]