Jaco Island
We continued our Timor-Leste round trip by travelling along the north coast to the "beach resort town" with the funny name Com. We made some stops along the road to visit a local market, Portugese churches, Japanese bunkers and rice fields.
Vegetable market in Manatuto.
A Portugese church from 1933 in Laleia.
A shop along the road.
Rice fields outside the town Vemasse.
Water buffaloes cooling down in a river outside the town Laivai.
On top of an old Japanese bunker close to the town Laivai.
More bunkers on the beach.
The "beach resort town" Com.
From Com we continued inland and after some hours on bad roads we reached the area Desa Rasa. It's an area with a lot of traditional houses and traditional graves belonging to the Fataluku people. The number of buffalo skulls on top of the grave shows how important a person was when he or she died.
Graves decorated with buffalo skulls.
Traditional Fataluku houses.
After driving through the Desa Rasa area we reached the coast again on the other side of the island. First we stopped at a view point before we continued down to the sea. We spent one night in a simple chalet on Tutuala Beach and from there we made an afternoon trip to Jaco Island. Jaco is a true paradise island with clear turquoise water and white sand beaches and the best thing no other tourists!
Tutuala beach.
Our home for the night.
Jaco Island.
After exploring Timor-Leste during one week I can highly recommend others to visit the country. It might be a destination for the more experienced travellers since the roads are in a very bad condition, the public transportation is not reliable in many areas and the standard of accomodation and food is simple.You need a lot of time and patience if you want to travel around on the island. The way I see it, is that all things mentioned are just parts of the adventure when you are discovering something outside the main tourist tracks.
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