One of the most beautiful islands in Timor-Leste is Atauro Island. It is a small oceanic island and municipality located north of Dili, East Timor, at the extinct Wetar section of the volcanic Inner Banda Arc, among the Indonesian islands of Alor and Wetar. The nearest island is the Indonesian island of Liran, 13 km to the northeast.

Timor-Leste’s Ataúro Island is the untouched ecotourism gem of Southeast Asia. Just a quick boat trip from the capital of Dili, Ataúro gives the whole thing you can believe or need in a chilled tropical getaway: lush mountains with dozens of trails to explore; white sand seashores and lightly lapping waves; volcanic mountains shrouded with wispy clouds; human beings and groups nonetheless dwelling via way of means of nearby traditions; and the maximum biodiverse reefs withinside the complete world, with masses of dolphins and whales swarming the surface.

Locaiton: north of Dili, East Timor

Jaco island is located at the easternmost factor of the island of Timor. Politically it's far a part of Tutuala subdistrict (district of Lautém). Jaco island is an abandoned island withinside the Pacific with a woodland complete of various kinds of trees, exceptional white sand, clean water to stroll to a mild blue till it receives a darker tint, developing a lovely degrade of blues.

It is separated from the island of Timor through a slender channel, which permits crossing most effectively through small boats. It gives about eight sq km of the vicinity and at maximum loom above the sea, Jaco Island is just like the featured object withinside the catalog of ideal seashore islands, ringed through a circle of Hawless, exceptional white sand lapped through azure waters.

Location: Tutuala subdistrict

Timor is an island on the southern coast of Maritime Southeast Asia, withinside the north of the Timor Sea. The island is split among the sovereign states of East Timor at the Japanese component and Indonesia at the western component. The Indonesian component, additionally referred to as West Timor, constitutes a part of the province of East Nusa Tenggara. Within West Timor lies an exclave of East Timor referred to as Oecusse District. The island covers a place of 30.777 rectangular kilometers . The call is a variation of timur, Malay for "east"; it's so referred to as it lies on the Japanese cease of the Lesser Sunda Islands. Mainland Australia is much less than 500 km away, separated through the Timor Sea.

Timor and its offshore islands along with Atauro, a former vicinity of exile more and more more acknowledged for its seashores and coral, in addition to Jaco along side Wetar and the opposite Barat Daya Islands to the northeast represent the Timor and Wetar deciduous forests ecoregion. The herbal plants become tropical dry broadleaf forests with an undergrowth of shrubs and grasses helping a wealthy wildlife. This is one of the most beautiful islands in the region that any visitor should explore at least once.

Location: on the southern coast of Maritime Southeast Asia