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		<title>Hành trình du lịch phong phú: Khám phá thế giới và bản thân</title>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Giới thiệu</strong></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Du lịch, nghệ thuật di chuyển từ nơi này đến nơi khác, vượt qua ranh giới địa lý và mở ra cánh cửa cho vô số khả năng. Đó là một lực lượng mạnh mẽ đã định hình nền văn minh nhân loại trong nhiều thế kỷ, đóng vai trò là nguồn cảm hứng, giáo dục và phát triển cá nhân. Trong bài luận này, chúng ta sẽ bắt tay vào cuộc hành trình của ngôn từ và suy nghĩ để khám phá những khía cạnh đa diện của du lịch. Từ cảm giác hồi hộp khi khám phá những cảnh quan mới đến tác động sâu sắc đến quan điểm và môi trường của chúng ta, du lịch là một hiện tượng đáng được xem xét kỹ hơn.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Tinh thần mạo hiểm</strong></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Một trong những lý do thuyết phục nhất khiến mọi người đi du lịch là tinh thần phiêu lưu bẩm sinh của con người. Tiếng gọi của những điều chưa biết, sức hấp dẫn của những vùng lãnh thổ chưa được khám phá và cảm giác hồi hộp khi khám phá đã thúc đẩy các cá nhân băng qua các lục địa, leo núi và vượt đại dương trong nhiều thiên niên kỷ. Từ những nhà thám hiểm dũng cảm của Kỷ nguyên Khám phá giương buồm đến những vùng biển chưa được khám phá cho đến những du khách ba lô thời hiện đại khám phá những nơi xa xôi trên thế giới, tinh thần phiêu lưu là một khía cạnh vượt thời gian của du lịch.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://greatergo.org/">Đi du lịch</a> cho phép chúng ta bước ra khỏi vùng an toàn của mình, đối mặt với nỗi sợ hãi và đón nhận những thử thách xảy đến với mình. Cho dù đó là đi bộ qua những khu rừng nhiệt đới rậm rạp, lặn xuống vực sâu của đại dương hay di chuyển trên những con phố nhộn nhịp của một thành phố xa lạ, những trải nghiệm này đều thúc đẩy chúng ta phát triển và thích nghi. Chúng nhắc nhở chúng ta rằng những bài học sâu sắc nhất trong cuộc sống thường nằm ngoài giới hạn của thói quen và khả năng dự đoán.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Hòa nhập văn hóa</strong></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Một trong những khía cạnh phong phú nhất của du lịch là cơ hội hòa mình vào các nền văn hóa khác nhau. Mỗi nơi trên thế giới đều tự hào về những truyền thống, ngôn ngữ và phong tục độc đáo của riêng mình. Khi đi du lịch, chúng ta có cơ hội tiếp xúc với những nền văn hóa đa dạng này, nuôi dưỡng sự trân trọng đối với tấm thảm phong phú về sự tồn tại của con người.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Sự hòa nhập văn hóa vượt ra ngoài bề ngoài. Nó bao gồm việc nếm thử ẩm thực địa phương, tham gia các nghi lễ truyền thống và trò chuyện với người dân địa phương để hiểu rõ hơn về lối sống của họ. Thông qua những tương tác này, chúng tôi khám phá ra sợi dây chung gắn kết các loại lại với nhau, vượt qua biên giới và</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">tầng lớp. Hơn nữa, nó thách thức những quan niệm và định kiến ​​đã có sẵn, khuyến khích sự đồng cảm và góc nhìn rộng hơn về các vấn đề toàn cầu.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Sức mạnh biến đổi của du lịch</strong></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Du lịch có sức mạnh biến đổi chúng ta ở mức độ sâu sắc. Nó thúc đẩy chúng ta thích nghi với những môi trường xa lạ, nuôi dưỡng khả năng phục hồi khi đối mặt với nghịch cảnh và khuyến khích sự phát triển cá nhân. Cho dù đó là việc chúng ta nhận ra rằng chúng ta có thể giao tiếp bằng tiếng nước ngoài hay sự trân trọng mới đối với những tiện nghi như ở nhà, du lịch đều có cách định hình lại các ưu tiên và giá trị của chúng ta.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Một trong những khía cạnh biến đổi nhất của du lịch là khả năng mở rộng tầm nhìn của chúng ta. Nó cho chúng ta thấy những thế giới quan khác nhau, thách thức những thành kiến ​​của chúng ta và khiến chúng ta trở thành những cá nhân cởi mở hơn. Khi chúng ta vượt qua sự phức tạp của một nền văn hóa nước ngoài hoặc vật lộn với thực tế khắc nghiệt của nghèo đói ở một quốc gia đang phát triển, chúng ta buộc phải đối mặt với đặc quyền và những quan niệm định sẵn của chính mình.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Hơn nữa, du lịch mang lại cơ hội để xem xét nội tâm. Thoát khỏi những thói quen và trách nhiệm hàng ngày, chúng ta có không gian tinh thần để suy ngẫm về cuộc sống, mục tiêu và vị trí của mình trên thế giới. Chính trong những khoảnh khắc khám phá bản thân này, chúng ta thường hiểu rõ hơn về các giá trị và khát vọng của mình.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Tác động môi trường</strong></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Mặc dù du lịch mang lại vô số lợi ích cho cá nhân nhưng nó cũng đi kèm với những hậu quả về môi trường. Sự gia tăng du lịch đã dẫn đến lượng khí thải carbon tăng từ các chuyến bay, cảnh quan thiên nhiên phát triển quá mức và phá vỡ các hệ sinh thái mỏng manh. Biến đổi khí hậu, một phần do ngành du lịch thúc đẩy, gây ra mối đe dọa đáng kể cho chính những điểm đến mà chúng ta muốn khám phá.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Giải quyết tác động môi trường của du lịch là mối quan tâm cấp bách cho tương lai. Các hoạt động du lịch bền vững, chẳng hạn như giảm lượng khí thải carbon thông qua các lựa chọn giao thông thân thiện với môi trường và hỗ trợ chỗ ở có ý thức sinh thái, là những bước cần thiết để giảm thiểu những tác động này. Hơn thế nữa,</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">du lịch có trách nhiệm liên quan đến việc tôn trọng môi trường và văn hóa địa phương, giảm thiểu chất thải và đóng góp tích cực cho cộng đồng mà chúng tôi ghé thăm.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Phần kết luận</strong></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Tóm lại, du lịch là một hiện tượng nhiều mặt bao gồm phiêu lưu, hòa nhập văn hóa, chuyển đổi cá nhân và tác động đến môi trường. Đó là một lực lượng mạnh mẽ đã định hình lịch sử loài người và tiếp tục ảnh hưởng đến cuộc sống của chúng ta ngày nay. Mặc dù du lịch mang lại vô số lợi ích nhưng nó cũng đi kèm với trách nhiệm. Nhiệm vụ của chúng ta là phải đi du lịch một cách chu đáo, đón nhận cuộc phiêu lưu đồng thời giảm thiểu dấu chân sinh thái và tôn trọng các nền văn hóa và môi trường mà chúng ta gặp phải.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Du lịch, theo nghĩa chân thực nhất của nó, không chỉ đơn thuần là một cuộc hành trình vật chất từ ​​nơi này đến nơi khác; đó là một cuộc hành trình của tâm trí và tinh thần. Đó là hành trình khám phá bản thân, hành trình đồng cảm và hành trình hướng tới một thế giới kết nối và bền vững hơn. Vì vậy, khi bắt tay vào chuyến du lịch của mình, chúng ta hãy thực hiện điều đó với trái tim rộng mở, trí óc rộng mở và cam kết để lại tác động tích cực cho thế giới, để các thế hệ tương lai có thể tiếp tục trải nghiệm hành trình du lịch phong phú.</p>
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		<title>Post-Pandemic in Central Asia: Nothing is free, especially money</title>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Social and economic upheaval at such a scale as experienced amid the COVID-19 pandemic unavoidably entails political effects.</p></blockquote>
<p>IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva described the scope and scale of the COVID-19 pandemic challenge bluntly: “COVID-19 has disrupted our social and economic order at lightning speed and on a scale that we have not seen in living memory.” The recent announcement by the IMF that it would provide $375 million in emergency assistance to Uzbekistan demonstrates the commitment of international financial institutions to address the economic upheaval created by the pandemic in the Central Asian region.</p>
<p>Virtually all major financial institutions long associated with the “West,” such as the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, have announced major financial assistance programs that apply to Central Asia. The newer international financial institutions associated with the “East,” such as the Eurasian Development Bank and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, have also stepped forward offering emergency assistance.</p>
<p>These actions echo emergency measures under way in the economically advantaged countries of Europe and North America. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told European parliamentarians, “We need a Marshall Plan for Europe’s recovery and it needs to be put in place immediately.” European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde put it succinctly, stating the “Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme,” (PEPP), is prepared to provide an economic stimulus “by as much as necessary and for as long as needed.”</p>
<p>The challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic is global in scope but the specific, local problems in some respects are very different. COVID-19 makes its own rules. It knows no nationality and no borders. The infection spreads without discrimination based on form of government, religion, or ethnicity. COVID-19 challenges all countries in common ways and the response, for all countries, is comprised of three stages: first, the immediate public health emergency; second, the mid-term economic and social requirements of containing the spread of the virus and mitigating the effects; and third, the long-term effects of recovery and restoration of normal economic and social relationships.</p>
<p>The Central Asian countries face the same challenges as countries around the world, but they also face some unique problems that are a product of their particular circumstances of geography, economy, and even culture. The governments of Central Asia are responding to the situation and international financial institutions are taking steps to help. The Central Asian countries have not, in comparative respects, done badly in mobilizing for the first emergency stage of this crisis. As we move toward the longer-term questions of sustainability, there are very real questions about whether regional finances will be sufficient to meet the challenge.</p>
<p>Until very recently in economically developed countries, discussion of so-called “helicopter money” was a subject for philosophically-inclined economists. COVID-19 changed that. Today discussion of “bail-out money” fills the talk of even budget managers and parliamentarians in the United States and the European Union. If “manna from heaven” works for highly developed countries, can similar mechanisms be used to address the challenges Central Asian countries face? Foreign assistance is often motivated by altruism but often comes with conditions.</p>
<h4>Nothing is free, especially money.</h4>
<p>Just as in all countries around the world, the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the disease it causes, COVID-19, came as a surprise to Central Asia. In the Central Asian countries, as in other countries around the world, the first response steps were emergency measures. Political authorities called on medical personnel and law enforcement to respond quickly and effectively. After the first cases of COVID-19 were identified in March 2020 in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, counter-infection measures were taken quickly. Tajikistan took some measures but sought to downplay the spread of the virus, perhaps out of misplaced bravado or out of concern about panic. The neighboring Turkmen leader generally avoided the virus issue but did respond to requests from neighboring leaders to participate in joint action in a video conference on April 9, 2020.</p>
<p>All Central Asian countries shared the same wrenching adaptation to the pandemic and its economic consequences as scores of other countries around the world. Air, rail, and road traffic connections were severed. Supply chains linking many of the most important sectors of the economy to world suppliers and world markets were suddenly broken. Markets, shops, factories, schools, public institutions, and places of worship were put into lockdown. An unprecedented collapse of commodities prices threatened exporters. The evaporation of routine earnings and livelihoods threatened millions of households.</p>
<p>Unlike some other regions of the world, the Central Asian countries have developed in such a way as to become highly dependent upon neighbors for trade and employment. To a very high degree, the Central Asian countries are reliant on export earnings, particularly for fuel and mineral exports. Also, the Central Asian countries, particularly Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, have developed extraordinarily large, foreign-employed migrant workforces.</p>
<p>At the end of 2019 there were about 3.8 million Central Asians officially at work in the Russian Federation. Estimates vary, but some demographers say that undocumented workers from Central Asian states during this period may have been as high as an additional 3 million people. The earnings of these Central Asian workers not only lined their own pockets; they sustained their families at home. The number of foreign laborers from Central Asian countries appears to have diminished somewhat in the past few years, but the labor contribution to the overall economic standing of the countries continued to be significant, particularly in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. As much as 50 percent of the national GDP of Kyrgyzstan was estimated by a UNDP study to be derived from Kyrgyz remittances.</p>
<p>Foreign labor practiced at this level is an economic issue; but the disruption of the personal and individual relationships in the space of just a few weeks is also an issue of human suffering on a massive scale. As Catherine Putz pointed out, this crisis will mean “not just less money flowing back into countries in South and Central Asia, but millions of unemployed individuals across the broader region.” Azamat Temirkulov in Kyrgyzstan posed a further question: What happens when they come back? “Because of the crisis, enterprises will solve their difficulties through job cuts, some will close due to lack of profit, others will completely go bankrupt. Our migrant workers will begin to return home, joining the ranks of the army of unemployed Kyrgyzstan.”</p>
<p>As Central Asian planners look toward the future, they pay attention to what other countries are doing. How are the economically advantaged countries dealing with this global crisis?</p>
<p>Analysts in the United States have watched legislation speed through the political process. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act was passed by Congress and signed into law on March 27, 2020. The over $2 trillion economic relief package included funding for individuals, workers, companies, and local governments. The goal of the legislation was to prevent the economy as a whole from grinding to a halt by making sure that individuals have support, companies can continue to operate, and governments continue to function.</p>
<p>The CARES Act and other “stimulus” legislation provides for financial outlays far in advance of the U.S. government’s previous expenditures. This raises the question: If there was so much discussion of the U.S. federal budget deficit being excessive in the past, where does the new money come from to meet these bills? Is it borrowed or simply printed? Can other countries use similar methods to meet the commitments that the crisis entails? Can, for instance, Tajikistan simply legislate its exit from the financial crisis that is shadowing COVID-19?</p>
<p>A proposal for accelerating the circulation of money, which was made partially in jest by economist Milton Friedman many years ago, described throwing money from a helicopter in order to get cash to people as quickly as possible. In the midst of the financial crisis in 2008, the U.S. Federal Reserve began using unconventional measures to encourage the circulation of money.</p>
<p>The COVID-19 crisis prompted many people to favor immediate measures such as “helicopter money.” The U.S. Federal Reserve is now purchasing bonds and equities on the open market and at the same time offering these same assets for repurchase on the open market. This process has the effect of supporting asset prices and it makes credit available to banks at very low rates. The European Central Bank is pursuing the same course. Should the Central Asian central banks simply follow these same lines of action? Here it is important to note there a few things that are specific to Central Asia.</p>
<p>The cycle of a downturn in an economy, whether initiated by poor governance or by some external force such as a foreign war, tends to limit opportunities for workers and producers alike. As producers lay off workers, purchasing falls, thereby limiting producers further. These “pro-cyclic” effects snowball, driving the economy lower and lower. For centuries political leaders have seen a slowing economy limit their ability to gather revenue and meet obligations and have turned to the idea of simply printing more money to settle accounts. But it has long been apparent that if the supply of cash in circulation is increased, the exchange value of the currency will compensate by falling.</p>
<p>Central Asian states moved out of the “Ruble zone” in 1994 because they were caught in an inflationary spiral they could not control. Simply printing more money and distributing it to the public can meet some challenges on a temporary basis. One example is the decision of Kazakh officials in summer 2019 to clear books and start anew by simply forgiving debt it had previously extended to help households. Can the Central Asian banks simply pay all salaries and forgive all debts without fueling runaway inflation in Central Asia today?</p>
<p>Financial measures like the COVID-19 emergency response in the European Union and the United States are not available to the Central Asian states. The economic situation in the advantaged economic situations in Europe and in North America is significantly different for two reasons. First, the Western economies are highly diversified, while the Central Asian countries are narrowly dependent upon export revenues. The fall of key commodity prices, for instance oil, will have an enduring impact on Kazakhstan, for example, and it may be some time before energy markets fully recover. Second, the U.S. dollar and the European Union enjoy the feature of seigniorage, which the Central Asian currencies do not. This is not magic; it merely means that the currency is more widely tradable and therefore resilient.</p>
<p>The long-term economic effects for all the Central Asian nations given the collapse in commodity prices, the disruption of commercial supply chains, the sudden shift in migrant labor and remittances, the cessation of typical earnings and livelihoods, and a panoply of other collateral effects of the pandemic have created an unprecedented social and economic crisis in Central Asia.</p>
<p>Social and economic upheaval at this level unavoidably entails political effects. The political and national security implications of the pandemic disruption call for contingency planning on a region-wide level.</p>
<p>The international financial institutions offer critical bridge funds to help the Central Asian states in their post-pandemic courses. Some of this international assistance comes in the form of grants and some in the form of loans. In both cases, the assistance that is currently being proposed only represents a very small portion of what is needed to sustain the Central Asian states in a mid-term adjustment period that could be two years or more.</p>
<p>The kind of “helicopter money” which is being discussed in Central Asian capitals is not among the measures necessary to protect and sustain these societies into the future. The Uzbek government has passed a number of laws and enacted a series of administrative measures to stimulate the national economy, speed direct assistance to the most vulnerable sectors, and insulate markets from international financial turmoil. The global financial institutional framework is tilted toward self-protection of the major players. North American and European financial institutions have adopted programs to lend dollars to countries in need as part of their efforts to help combat the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, but many countries do not have adequate access to refinancing and currency swap mechanisms despite their heavy dollar-based financing needs to service current account deficits, repay external borrowing, and to provide foreign-based liquidity to their own banking systems.</p>
<p>The discussion of “helicopter funds” is necessary, but it must move to a more realistic level. If serious considerations are ignored or prolonged, the political implications of economic insolvency can be expected to emerge on the horizon. Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, in particular, face dire economic circumstances.</p>
<p>The offers of foreign assistance in the post-pandemic “reconstruction” period may be associated with infrastructure projects. The former Soviet states, with the Russian Federation in the lead, have been insistent in offering a platform for northern-oriented relations in the form of the Eurasian Economic Union. Meanwhile the attraction from the east in the form of concessional terms for infrastructure development in Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is apt to attract more attention. As Arne Elias Corneliussen observed, “COVID-19 does not change China’s underlying strategic rationale for the BRI.”</p>
<p>In other geographical circumstances, a long-term solution to many of the problems caused by the disruptions of COVID-19 might call for spatial reorganization. This might include a condominium or a consolidation of geographical territory into the territory of a neighbor. Geography is destiny. That is something even the pandemic cannot change.</p>
<p><em>By Gregory Gleason, a Professor of Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. Views presented are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of U.S. Department of Defense or the George C. Marshall Center. </em><em>@ https://thediplomat.com/2020/05/post-pandemic-central-asia-moving-beyond-helicopter-money/</em></p>
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<p>They are the perfect answer for those seeking moments of relaxation and freedom out of the hustle and bustle of cities. Featuring some of the best beaches in Asia, these are the region’s most stunning paradise islands.</p>
<h5>Cát Bà Island, Vietnam</h5>
<div id="attachment_1501" style="width: 1010px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1501" class="size-full wp-image-1501" src="http://asiainsiders.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Cat-Ba-Vietnam.jpg" alt="" width="1000" height="667" srcset="https://asiainsiders.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Cat-Ba-Vietnam.jpg 1000w, https://asiainsiders.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Cat-Ba-Vietnam-300x200.jpg 300w, https://asiainsiders.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Cat-Ba-Vietnam-768x512.jpg 768w, https://asiainsiders.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Cat-Ba-Vietnam-585x390.jpg 585w, https://asiainsiders.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Cat-Ba-Vietnam-263x175.jpg 263w" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" /><p id="caption-attachment-1501" class="wp-caption-text">The setting sun in a bay on Cat Ba island | © Dillon Ward/Shutterstock</p></div>
<p>Located in northern Vietnam, the stunning Cát Bà National Park is home to a UNESCO World Heritage Site: Ha Long Bay. Cát Bà Island is the largest island in the park, and the town itself is rather touristy, with many karaoke bars attracting Vietnamese weekenders. But take a little ride out of town, and find the many golden beaches, boat ride options, dense jungles and lush green mountains offering plenty of treks with incredible views of the famous karst scenery of Cát Bà National Park</p>
<h5>The Maldives</h5>
<div id="attachment_1503" style="width: 710px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1503" class="size-full wp-image-1503" src="http://asiainsiders.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/The-Maldives.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="467" srcset="https://asiainsiders.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/The-Maldives.jpg 700w, https://asiainsiders.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/The-Maldives-300x200.jpg 300w, https://asiainsiders.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/The-Maldives-585x390.jpg 585w, https://asiainsiders.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/The-Maldives-263x175.jpg 263w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /><p id="caption-attachment-1503" class="wp-caption-text">Picture-perfect beaches are guaranteed at the Maldives</p></div>
<p>It may have a reputation for unrivaled luxury, but seasoned travelers will confirm that it is possible to experience the breath-taking beauty of The Maldives, on a budget. Made up of more than 1200 islands, the Indian Ocean paradise is home to some of the most gorgeous (and untouched) beaches on the planet.</p>
<h5>Perhentian Islands, Malaysia</h5>
<div id="attachment_1504" style="width: 810px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1504" class="size-full wp-image-1504" src="http://asiainsiders.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Perhentian-islands-e1582710195737.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="520" /><p id="caption-attachment-1504" class="wp-caption-text">Boats anchored on the beach in the Perhentian islands | © Dzerkach Viktar/Shutterstock</p></div>
<p>Located off the east coast of Malaysia, the Perhentian Islands are the most laid back range of islands to be found in the area. They are the perfect spot to relax, remain barefoot and listen to music while watching the sunset and sipping on a cocktail. The islands have hidden coves, beautiful sandy beaches and crystal-clear waters, perfect if you are looking for places to go diving and snorkeling in Malaysia.</p>
<h5>Macleod Island, Myanmar</h5>
<div id="attachment_1505" style="width: 810px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1505" class="size-full wp-image-1505" src="http://asiainsiders.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Emerald-seas-in-Myanmar-e1582710320832.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="450" /><p id="caption-attachment-1505" class="wp-caption-text">White sand and emerald seas in Myanmar | © Day2505/Shutterstock</p></div>
<p>Located in the Mergui Archipelago off Myanmar’s coast, Macleod Island remains mostly untouched, meaning it is serene and full of simple beauty. There is only one resort on the island, the Myanmar Andaman Resort, which is a simple and rustic eco-lodge. The Macleod Island is ideal for those seeking tranquillity in a natural paradise. The isolated island is home to pristine beaches, incredible diving spots and unspoiled nature.</p>
<h5>Komodo, Indonesia</h5>
<div id="attachment_1506" style="width: 1010px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1506" class="size-full wp-image-1506" src="http://asiainsiders.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Komodo-Islands.jpg" alt="" width="1000" height="667" srcset="https://asiainsiders.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Komodo-Islands.jpg 1000w, https://asiainsiders.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Komodo-Islands-300x200.jpg 300w, https://asiainsiders.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Komodo-Islands-768x512.jpg 768w, https://asiainsiders.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Komodo-Islands-585x390.jpg 585w, https://asiainsiders.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Komodo-Islands-263x175.jpg 263w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" /><p id="caption-attachment-1506" class="wp-caption-text">Padar Island, part of the Komodo Islands | © Pramoto Setiaji Kendarto / Shutterstock</p></div>
<p>If you thought dragons didn’t exist, think again. Komodo National Park is home to the Komodo Dragon. Located between the islands of Flores and Sumbawa in eastern Indonesia, Komodo is a secluded and untamed Jurassic Park-like island part of the National Park. Besides being well known as the home to the giant lizard, Komodo is also known as a paradise for nature lovers, with numerous mountains to climb and amazing diving sites around the stunning coral reefs.</p>
<h5>Akajima, Japan</h5>
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<p>Akijima, often referred to as ‘Aka’, is part of Okinawa’s Kerama Islands in Japan. In the summer, it becomes popular with Japanese tourists, but even in peak season, Akajima retains its charm with spotless beaches and welcoming locals. Offshore, it is possible to snorkel, dive and kayak in waters rich in tropical sea life.</p>
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