One of the planet's great cetacean highways runs a few kilometres off Dili — twenty-plus species, and blue whales in season.
Why this channel
What you will learn here
It is Timor-Leste's single most bookable wildlife experience and the strongest reason to visit between October and December.
Four short filmed conversations with the people who know this subject first-hand are being produced for this page by Stays of Timor. Each is two to three minutes — honest, local, and recorded in Timor-Leste.
The interviews
Four conversations, four angles
🎥Interview coming soon
Interview 1Why the whales come this way
The bathymetry and currents that make Ombai-Wetar a migration corridor.
🎥Interview coming soon
Interview 2Who's out there: twenty-plus species
Identifying the residents and the migrants, from spinner dolphins to sperm whales.
🎥Interview coming soon
Interview 3Watching without disturbing
The code of conduct, boat behaviour, and the risk unregulated tourism poses.
🎥Interview coming soon
Interview 4Listening to the ocean
Acoustics, hydrophones, and what whale song reveals about who is passing.
In pictures
Nature & Wildlife
Reef line from the airSnorkellers in clear waterMangrove waterThe wild east
Photos: Ministry of Tourism & Environment, Timor-Leste
Part of the Timor Information Channels — 28 subjects, told by the people who know them. Produced by Stays of Timor.
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