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Asia welcomes the Year of the Dragon

Asia has welcomed the Year of the Dragon with a cacophony of fireworks, hoping the mightiest sign in the Chinese zodiac will usher in the wealth and power it represents. From Malaysia to South Korea, millions of people travelled huge [...]

Posted On : Jan, 23 2012 | Comments : 0

Komodo dragons - luxury cruise in Indonesia

When I was a boy, I saw dragons. They didn’t actually fly or breathe fire, but in every other respect they were the stuff of legends, with razor-sharp claws, fearsome teeth and fiery tongues. What’s more, they lived in an exo [...]

Posted On : Mar, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Komodo Dragons in Indonesia

Komodo National Park is a fascinating place, with barren, desolate features and the rare, slow lumbering giant lizards that most people go there to see. These endangered animals live on a small group of islands between Sumbawa and Flores in [...]

Posted On : Aug, 29 2009 | Comments : 0

Here be dragons and dives

My first experience of the bounties of the rather obscure Nusa Tenggara came about ten years ago when I dragged myself away from the world-famous waves of Bali and travelled to the lesser-known island of Lombok. Ditching the surfboard, I he [...]

Posted On : Mar, 16 2009 | Comments : 0

To fire up tourism China made dragon

Into the tourism industry Chinese investors are building a 21km concrete dragon to breathe fire, but some experts have already branded it a cultural gaffe, a newspaper said today. The dragon, which will wind along the ridge of Shizu mounta [...]