Dili Days Decrease

As I may have mentioned somewhere before, I've got this never ending project of organising my photos and posting them to the blog. While my intention remains to make some commentaries of the events where the photos are taken I have to recognise that this may take much more time than I think. Therefore, I'm now posting an English index of the photo albums that I have managed to construct so far. This is actually covering more or less all my photo-events in Timor-Leste, but many of the links lead to pages where the commentary is in Finnish only.

• December 4 riots in 2002
  
• Dili views, taken one morning walking to the office from the hotel I was staying in the beginning (Dec 2002)
  
• First time at beach in Timor (Dec 2002)
  
• Christmas 2002 in Dili
• Workshop in Maliana 24 Jan 2003
• A field trip to Lospalos and surroundings 6-8 Feb 2003
• Miscelleneous from April-May 2003
• Climbing Ramelau 7-8 Jun 2003
• Ata'uro Island 1-3 Nov 2003
• Loi Huno caves (Viqueque district) 8-9 Nov 2003
• Double-birthday party at my landlord's house 15 Nov 2003
• Workshop in Oecussi 24 Nov 2003
• Christmas greeting 2003
• Christmas time 2003
• Cinnamon trip 27 Dec 2003
• Olivia & Riina visiting Timor 13-19 Mar 2004
• Long weekend in Com 9-11 Apr 2004
• My parents visiting 15-20 Jun 2004
• Office Retreat 21-22 Jun 2004
• Climbing Matebian (a real, unintended survival trip) 17-18 Jul 2004
• Haoliang's farewell 7 Aug 2004
• Wedding of José & Signi 13.8. 2004
• Riku visiting 26 Nov - 1 Oct 2004
• Miscelleneous photos 2004
• Miscelleneous photos 2005
• Christmas season 2005 and New Year 2006
• Miscelleneous photos 2006
• Last day at office and farewell party 21 Apr and departure 22 Apr 2006

Enjoy!

Posted by Janne at 19:08 | Permalink | Comments

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UPDATE (01 NOV 2006): A commentator reports that as of 1 October 2006, Merpati has resumed daily service between Denpasar and Dili again. Knowing Merpati's communications record, I still strongly reommend contacting Merpati diectly for latest information before travelling with them.

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I had a look on the site access statistics, and noticed to my surprise that a fair number of people had accessed my blog by searching something like 'dili denpasar flight schedule', which is probably because of this post. Obviously that is not much help for someone who wants to get to Dili, so I try to be nice and give the schedule here. This should be effective from June until further notice, but obviously I take no responsibility of the accuracy of the information. One should probably check Merpati's own site, but it seems to be down as usual, and as far as I remeber, the Dili flights could never be found there anyway.


So, here is the schedule:

Mon
MZ8480 DPS 10:10 -> DIL 13:00
MZ8480 DIL 13:40 -> DPS 14:35

Wed/Fri/Sun
MZ8490 DPS 10:30 -> DIL 13:20
MZ8490 DIL 13:55 -> DPS 14:50

Unfortunately no more flighs Tue/Thu/Sat. This is a communication from some time ago, but be aware that some online travel sevices list the schedules differently (but still flights only Mon/Wed/Fri/Sun). Probably better to call Merpati before travel, telephone (Bali office): +62 361 222864 /...225841 /..228842.

Posted by Janne at 10:28 | Permalink | Comments

It is still hard to understand how little there were visible signs of upcoming misfortune in second-last week of April. Even if there were some tension in the air, I still wouldn’t ever have anticipated what was coming, as I have reported earlier.

These photos are from 21 and 22 April, my last day at the UNDP office as well as the farewell party and the departure from the airport. At that time, it was still more or less business as usual. There are more related pictures here. Thanks again everybody who came to the party or airport, and to all other people I got to know during my 3.5 year stay in Dili. Hope to see you soon somewhere in the world!

More farewell party pictures here.

Posted by Janne at 09:00 | Permalink | Comments