From Vietnam's jungles to Thailand's rainforests, Southeast Asia's wilderness shelters extraordinary wildlife—orangutans, Asian elephants, and even Komodo dragons.
There's no need for Game of Thrones or The Lord of the Rings. Here on Earth, specifically in Indonesia, it's easy to see real life dragons...
The elephant gathering in Minneriya National Park is the largest recurring gathering of Asian elephants known to exist anywhere on earth. Over 300 of them congregate here every September and October to graze, drink, bathe, play and even find mates, forming a wall of grey around the watering areas...
he Cardamom mountains are home to some of the thickest, wildlife-filled rainforests in Southeast Asia. There was positive news here in 2016 when the Cambodian government turned more than a million acres of land across the mountains into the protected Southern Cardamom National Park, which will combine with six existing national parks to create a vast 4.5 million acre protected wildlife corridor...
Malaysia is making renewed efforts in 2017 to protect its prized wildlife. Taman Negara National Park is one of the places where the country's conservation efforts began, though. The first officially protected area in Malaysia, it's the country's largest national park and one of the world's oldest rainforests...
Vietnam has strict regulations, and for decades all forms of gambling were completely banned. The tide, however, seems to have turned in 2018, with the legalization of betting on football, horse racing, and greyhound racing and the opening of casinos reserved to holders of foreign passports. Furthermore, the government launched a pilot project to allow locals in casinos, provided they earn a minimum of $445 per month...