Timor's Floating Hotels

Floating hotels are a symbol of high living, an irony in stark contrast to widespread poverty in Timor Loro Sa'e.

October 30, 2001

My Way, echoing through the spacious Café Oceana, brought back the memory of the legendary Frank Sinatra as dozens of neatly-dressed guests of the floating hotel Central Maritime sat back and relaxed on clean, white linen-covered seats that night in August. The sun had just set on the horizon, leaving a stream of red light in the skies above the Gulf of Ombai, off the coast of Dili. Darkness slowly descended on the dimly-lit city largely

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