Hi Paul. Look on the guides page for guides for this and Fatu Timau (under ‘resources’). Funnily enough, Andy is going to do these two next week so your trips may coincide – I sent an email to him….definitely enough time to do them.
Cheers and hope to see you on Wed 7th for a beer at Ya Udah, Menteng…

Hi Dan, do you have any contact details for Pak Matheos’s homestay – or for other guides in the area? I’m thinking of doing a quick trip to Timor Barat over 5 days for Lebaran . What do you think – enough time for a quick trip in and out of Kupang and a quick gunung bag?

Not sure if you remember but we met on the Java Lava trip to Pelabuhan Ratu earlier in the year. hope all is well with you. Cheers, Paul

Hiked up Mutis for dawn yesterday. A truly fantastic mountain quite unlike any other in Indonesia. Pak Matheos’s Lopo Mutis homestay in Fatumnasi is all part of the experience – he and his family are some of the nicest people in Indonesia and will call you into the rumah adat (traditional house) for food seemingly every couple of hours!
His son, Steve, knows the mountain incredibly well (having climbed it perhaps 100 times!). Fatumenasi is well over 1500m above sea level and the starting point is 8km further along a bumpy track through beautiful fields of eucalyptus trees with moss growing on the trunks.
The landscape is truly breathtaking – gorgeous grassy meadows filled with cows and horses. It’s an easy hike – we made it up in 3 hours and back down in 2. It was the first time someone had asked to climb in time for first light, but I recommend it because the top of Mutis is usually shrouded in cloud by 9am. Back at Pak Matheos’s place I was given another big plate of nasi sayur after which I paid them a decent tip. His wife came running out and presented me with a local ikat (cloth) scarf and Matheos told me that when I return to my friends and family in Jakarta and England I can show it to them and tell them I also have a family in Fatumnasi beneath Mutis mountain!!!
A fabulous experience – it’s really worth the effort getting up to Fatumnasi.