Travel in East Timor - Staying in the city of Pante Massakar - Ou-coussé.

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Travelling in East Timor - Staying in the city of Pante Massakar - Ou-coussé.

After a long period of an excess of work, that I couldn't publish on Steemit, being on Steemfest2 in Lisbon near Sintra where I live, contacting the real people of this huge community now, made me find some time to write a post again.
I'm still digesting the joy and learning of being in the middle of some of our fellow steemians that really impacts our knots to the community.
Today I'm going to comment some photos I made when I was staying for two weeks in Pante Massakar, the exclave of Ou-coussé a part of East Timor inside the Indonesian part of the island.
I was staying at the convent of the Carmelite Sisters East Timor, in the main centre of Pante Massakar, because the new and first hotel of Pante Massakar was only ready one week later.
Here is the astonishing garden where I take my breakfast every day just in front of my room.

In the morning I found this welcome board in the room I was working.
It means "Welcome to Ou-Coussé".

The nice room where I have worked for two weeks.

On the way out to my coffee. View on the right.

View on the left.

And the place I go for a smoke before going to sleep.

Getting out to the street to take a photo of this Carmelite Sisters' convent/farm/restaurant/bar.

In this convent, they keep and educate around 150 girls coming from poor families that can't support them because the main problem of Esta Timor is poverty, and bad but free medical assistance.

The big red yellow spot is where I started my first day in Pante Masskar in Ou-Cussé District.

The first photo of my addictive place, just in front, the Moxito Café/Restaurant, where I go more than three times a day to my Portuguese expresso just like in Portugal.

Sitting at my coffee table I take some shots to the right.
Some people going to fish, one of the main activities in East Timor.

And to the left.

Sitting in a chair outside and enjoying the quiet and silence of a non-rush society.

I get out of the Moxito Caffe and I go for a walk on the road to the left.

And I feel small walking near this millennial trees with long witches hair.

Everybody is very polite and always say B'dia with a large smile on their faces.

Look at this "Hair".

Near this tree on the left, I find this old Portuguese Cannon from the XVIII century, just abandoned with garbage construction.

Photo to the beach on the back.

Keep on walking down the street, feeling the strong light of the tropics in the morning.

The rapid change of colours in the left with the sun flashing on the sea.

The view that goes almost to the frontier of Ou-coussé with Indonesia.

Near a public park, I find the first stone of the recently created statute of a Special Zone of Social Market Economy in Timor-Leste, for Ou-Cussé (in Portuguese ZEESM - Zona Especial de Economia Social de Mercado em Timor Leste) .

This plaque is inside a recently inaugurated garden, that has epic and religious motives influenced by the local Catholic church that can be felt in any aspect of East Timor society.

And the trumpets of the Last Judgement and statue of a saint.

The first street on the right walking to the street on the back to go to the local market.

Crossing this bridge recently finished.

The last photo of the view of the beach.

Walking the avenue to the market.

On the left of the avenue to the local market, I find this Park for children, a very rare stuff in East Timor.

Getting inside the park.

All of a sudden you think you are in Europe, it's not normal to see this type of modern public places.

And a surprisingly view of the mountains on the left side.

Tropical fields for cattle and rice planting.

Nice houses, very good and maintained by the local standards.

The typical landscapes of Asia with cows and buffalos.

The small flat land near the sea is always counterbalanced by Mountains on the back.

One more beautiful farm.

And these two kids are fishing from the lagoons of the rice fields but using a slingshot to catch the fishes.

This cow was very curious on me.

Funny trycicle tractors used in agriculture and fro people transportation.

Another view.

And in the next corner is the local market of Ou-Coussé.

Here you can buy total organic vegetables. No quimics in East Timor. :)

A curious kid playing on the ground that later started to cry and went to his mother , that came back with and asked me to hugh the kid. He was crying because he wanted a kiss and a hugh from me. :)

Lovely and really tasteful bananas, reminding me of the ones I ate all my youth in Mozambique.

Some more photos when I came back to my place for lunch.

The continuous change of tones.

Light changing again.

The Sun shining on the back.

And the last photo of this post, sitting at the beach.