Walking in Timor East - Makan Itu Batu

Overview

In 2000 I went to East Timor as a volunteer aid worker with the Australian NGO Timor Aid, after the Indonesian government had torched the capitol Dili, and other parts of the island, and after murdering many of them, left the East Timorese to their own devices with no food, medicine or infrastructure but a lot of optimism, good will and plans despite their years of suffering. After some weeks I caught dengue fever and was flown out to Darwin. This is my fractured fever memory of Timor and its people in ruins shot on super eight film, a lot of it while riding a bicycle.