Oecusse

Oecusse is an exclave of Timor-Leste on the north coast of Indonesian West Timor, separated from the rest of the country by seventy kilometres of foreign territory and reached by ferry from Dili, by flight or by a road crossing two borders. It is where the Portuguese first landed in the sixteenth century, which is why this odd shape exists at all. Lifau, the site of that landing and the first colonial capital, is marked by a monument on an empty beach. The exclave is dry, quiet and very little visited. The ferry runs twice a week and takes about twelve hours.