Up in Bobonaro

Bobonaro is a beautiful mountain town in the west of East Timor. You drive out along the coast until you nearly reach the Indonesian border. Then you go up into the mountains to Balibo, where the western journalists were murdered by the invading Indonesian troops in 1975. You go down into a big wide river valley, then up into the mountains again to Bobonaro. Up there the mists hang on the mountain tops and the air is cool and crisp after the humidity and heat of the coast.