Day 91

29/09/2009


Arrived on West Timor around 7am with the intention of driving as far as we could today. This would have meant getting to the East Timor border around 5pm by our estimate, but the risk was that the border would be closed and we may end up camping there. Reading Lonely Planet, there was a warning that there had been some anti-western sentiment in the town just before the border, and they suggested not planning to spend a night in this area. We therefore stopped short in the next reasonable size town at about 2pm.


Couldn't find either of the two hotels mentioned in LP but did find one (with no signs outside) which was OK. Ate at one of the small restaurants up the street which seem to be following a similar style on the Eastern Indonesian islands of having the food on display in the window in a similar manner to a baker in England might display cakes on the type of cake stand your grandmother had on the Sunday dinner table. When I first saw them I actually thought they were bakers selling cakes.


Lat 9 28.08 S
Long 124 28.85 E
Town Kefamemanu