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Your stops

Dili
4 nights
Staying at Malinamoc ★★★★
Maubisse highlands
2 nights
Staying at Sara Guest House
Up for a pre-dawn climb to Timor's highest peak?
Balibo
1 night
Staying at Balibo Fort Hotel

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Your day-by-day plan

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Day 1 · Tue, 24 Nov 2026
Arrival in Dili
Welcome to Timor-Leste! Your guide meets you at Presidente Nicolau Lobato Airport with a warm smile and whisks you to your hotel along the palm-lined seafront. Take the afternoon to unwind, then join us for a stroll along the Dili waterfront as fishing boats come in and the hills glow gold. Grab a fresh coconut, watch the city come alive at sunset, and get ready: Asia's newest nation has a lot to show you.
- Airport pick-up on arrival
- Overnight: Malinamoc, Dili
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Day 2 · Wed, 25 Nov 2026
Discovering Dili
Today you meet the remarkable spirit of the Timorese people. At the Resistance Archive and Museum, letters, photographs and radio messages bring a 24-year struggle for freedom vividly to life. Continue to Chega!, a former prison turned powerful place of truth and reconciliation, and pause at Santa Cruz Cemetery, where the world first saw Timor's courage in 1991. End on a high at Cristo Rei, looking out over the peaceful, hopeful capital that resilience built.
- Overnight: Malinamoc, Dili
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Day 3 · Thu, 26 Nov 2026
Dili to Maubisse via Aileu
Trade the beach for the mountains. The road twists up from Dili through the hills, with ever-wider views back over the city and the sea, then into the cool green coffee country of Aileu. Pause for lunch at Projeto Montanha before the final climb along the ridges to Maubisse, where cool air, mist and a warm cup of local coffee await.
- On the road: about 2 h 45 min
- Overnight: Sara Guest House, Maubisse
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Day 4 · Fri, 27 Nov 2026
Exploring Maubisse
A day of mountain adventures. Just south of Maubisse, follow a short trail to the Ersalibuti (Hakmatek) waterfall, plunging into a deep, refreshing pool. Then walk with a local guide to traditional Mambae villages, with their distinctive houses, terraced gardens and children waving from the doorways. Stop for coffee on a ridge with views across the peaks, and arrive back in Maubisse as the mist rolls in.
- Overnight: Sara Guest House, Maubisse
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Day 5 · Sat, 28 Nov 2026
Maubisse back to Dili
Wind back down from the highlands through coffee country, with sweeping views over Dili and the sea as you descend. Arrive in the capital in time to freshen up for dinner.
- On the road: about 2 h 45 min
- Overnight: Malinamoc, Dili
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Day 6 · Sun, 29 Nov 2026
Dili to Balibo
Head west along a quiet coast road of grey-sand beaches and fishing villages, past Liquiçá and the old Portuguese fort at Maubara, where you can browse woven baskets made by local women. Near the border, the road turns uphill to Balibo, where tonight you sleep inside a 350-year-old hilltop fort with views to the sea.
- On the road: about 3 h 45 min
- Overnight: Balibo Fort Hotel, Balibo
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Day 7 · Mon, 30 Nov 2026
Balibo back to Dili
Visit Balibo, where five journalists from Australia, Britain and New Zealand lost their lives in 1975 while reporting the truth to the world. At the Balibo Flag House, now a community centre, see the Australian flag they painted on the wall, still faintly visible, and learn how their story became the film Balibo. It is a moving, unforgettable stop, softened by the warmth of today's community and views from the town's hilltop fort.
- On the road: about 3 h 45 min
- Overnight: Malinamoc, Dili
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Day 8 · Tue, 1 Dec 2026
Departure day
Enjoy a final, unhurried breakfast with views of the bay. Depending on your flight, there may be time for one last waterfront stroll or a stop for Timorese coffee beans to take home. Your guide collects you for the short drive to the airport, and you leave with new friends, full memory cards and the warmest obrigadu barak (thank you very much) from all of us. Until next time!
- Airport drop-off for your flight