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East Timor Backpackers (Hostel)

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  • Av Almirante Americo Tomas, Matadouro
    Dili , SOUTH-EAST ASIA | View map
  • Price Range: Budget
  • Neighbourhood: Matadouro
  • Atmosphere: Backpacker - Basic and Busy

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Lonely Planet Review

Quotes Dili's only hostel is a charmer with 11 beds in three rooms. It's not posh by any means but there's a fun bar-cafe out back and plenty of characters milling around. The owners are helpful and welcoming.

The sleeping rooms here are pretty tight but not as tight as you'll be after a night in the Smokehouse bar-cafe in the inner courtyard of this compound of indeterminate age. Ex-pats and international travellers run aground; locals with a tale or two mix and mingle with abandon out back. Even if you don't smoke, arm yourself with a pack or two and your popularity will be assured. This is the place to rent a motorcycle for exploring the country and you'll get plenty of good real-world advice that's far more valuable than the pabulum of government websites.

Review by author Ryan Ver Berkmoes

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The busy road out front is the main artery for the western part of Dili, the airport and the country all the way to Indonesia. Walk north and you're immediately transported into the rather urbane Motael neighbourhood, with its embassies, mannered houses and pretty seafront.