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Timor-Leste holidays

May 2018

  • Tourism and Sustainable development in Timor-Leste Dolphins play. Dolphins play in the warm waters of Timor Leste. Resident pods call Atauro Island home. Photo: Paul HILTON

    Timor-Leste's incredible marine life – in pictures

    Situated in the heart of the ‘coral triangle’, this young nation boasts some of the most biodiverse waters in the world. As it emerges from years of unrest, it now faces the challenge of protecting its coasts, and the communities that rely on them, in the face of growing development

August 2015

  • The dramatic Cristo Rei of Dili.

    Timor-Leste: what it's like to travel in a land without tourists

    Journeying with a contingent of volunteer dentists on a mission, non-dentist Anneli Knight enjoys a road trip around the western side of the new country

August 2010

  • Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam

    Asia's new backpacking hot spots

    Much of south-east Asia and India is a backpacker's superhighway, chocka' with travellers. But there are always great places to discover off the beaten track

November 2009

  • mali

    Adventure holidays: hot tips for 2010

    We asked the experts to reveal the trips they are most excited about, from Papua New Guinea's jungles to Greenland's ice floes

August 2009

  • If you want to push the boundaries...

    Determined to experience areas well away from mass tourism, some backpackers go against Foreign Office advice. Matt Crook reports from East Timor

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