​​​​Lost Paradises Travels - Asia

INDONESIA

Indonesia straddles the Equator between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Indonesia is the sleeping giant of Southeast Asia. With 18,110 islands, 6,000 of them inhabited, it is the largest archipelago in the world.

So many itineraries are possible  from the paradisiac island of Bali, visiting the wonderful temple of Borobudur or the impressive Komodo dragons.

For the dark side : large areas of forest in Indonesia have been cleared by large multinational pulp or logging companies, and replaced by plantations. Forests are often burned by farmers and plantation owners. Logging and the burning of forests to clear land for cultivation has made Indonesia the world's third largest emitter of greenhouse gases, behind China and the United States. Forest fires often destroy high capacity carbon sinks, including old-growth rainforest and peatlands.  Today, Indonesia had surpassed the rate of deforestation in Brazil, and become the fastest forest clearing nation in the world.