Thanks to Geo-Pick, one of my favorite sites, We have our City of the Day for May 11, 2012.
Dili is the capital of East Timor. The country is on an island approximately halfway between Australia and Indonesia.
The island has apparently been inhabited for over 4000 years based on things found such as cave paintings and things like that. The Chinese started trading with the natives in the 13th century because there was a very large supply of sandalwood forests.
A very good vacation spot from what I have been able to determine based on Research. From Dili you can take a drive to the coffee growing region of the country. There is also Deep Sea Fishing. The Teak and Sandalwood forests to see and there is an old Government house that has been made into a hotel.
Food options here are not as varied as in some places but still good. You have Filipino, Japanese, Indonesian, Some other varied Asian cuisines and Portuguese since Portugal was here for quite a while for the lumber.
Accommodations range from fairly high end to backpackers hangouts for as little as 5 USD a night.
Nightlife appears to be decent as well. There are a number of bars and at least one disco that I was able to find listed.
I believe that should I ever come into money this is one of the places I would like to see.
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