A trip to the island where dragons roam


A close up of a Komodo dragon walking along the beach on the Komodo National Park in Indonesia. — FLORENCE TEH

Jurassic Park may have been a work of complete fantasy, but the first sight of Komodo National Park islands blurred the lines between fiction and reality. Sure, it was CGI dinosaurs in the Hollywood blockbuster, but the heavy hitters here are true relics of a prehistoric age.

As a tropical country, it’s easy to imagine Indonesia covered with dense rainforests.

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