Traditional Timor House

For the last two weeks I have been visiting Timor-Leste while volunteering for the charity Disaster Aid Australia.

I thought I would share this photograph of a traditional Timorese Mountain House

They are called Uma Lulik and are built by the Fatakulu people, an ethnic minority.

Lots of them are still lived in though you do see some modern reproductions.

If you look carefully you can see 3 of the same types of houses half way up the mountain in the middle of the photo

For more unusual houses, and Fails go to What the………………….?