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...Dili, the nation's capital, for around $35 a day. Fuel depots are ubiquitous but outside Dili don't expect service stations with a cafE and clean restrooms. Here fuel is sold from a roadside hut, the gas stored in jerricans, and filtered through rags that hang on goat skulls behind the attendant's counter...
...mountainous Lautem regency on the island's eastern edge?an area famed for its intricately-carved traditional houses built on stilts?the pulse of ancestor and spirit worship beats strong beneath the cloak of Catholicism. In cemeteries, graves are marked with crucifixes and decorated with buffalo and goat skulls. A couple will wed in church, but only after a relative has sought ancestral approval by tearing out the beating hearts of sacrificial chickens. "It works well," a portly priest once told me. "The chickens are sometimes served up at the feast after the (church) service...
...Birds are only the most prominent creatures nesting in this preserve. Native species include monitor lizards, mongooses, barking deer and goat antelope. Dolphins are sometimes spotted along the rugged coast, and there have been sightings of rare species like the small leopard cat, colorful purple heron and several types of eagles (white-bellied, spotted and imperial). One species surprisingly not seen in great numbers, though, is the human one. Only a few thousand visitors drop into the park in an average month, leaving much of Khao Sam Roi Yot in a state of splendid wilderness...
...into the Stygian darkness of the dining room proper, where flashlights and even luminous watches and mobile phones are prohibited, customers choose their fare in the restaurant's brightly lit, cheerfully decorated entrance hall. To add to the spirit of mystery, individual dishes are not clearly identified as, say, goat cheese on a tomato beignet. Instead, enigmatic descriptions such as "a flying visit to an Alpine cheese factory" make the diners even more curious about what's soon to hit their palettes. It's all very reminiscent of the exotic dinner parties planned by the Futurists, the early 20th century...
...that Ottoman builders used in the 16th century. These massive limestone blocks, engineers say, are unique to the region in their combination of porousness and durability. One thing that won't be reproduced is the mortar used to hold the stones together, which was said to be mixed from goat hair and egg shells. Mending the ethnic wounds is going to prove harder. The Stari Most was destroyed by a Croat shell not because of its strategic significance but because of what it stood for - the ethnic cohabitation of Muslim, Croat and Serb. The Croat commander whose unit deliberately brought...