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    CHASING DRAGONS

    Jul 08, 2022 3 minutes
    Words Keith Bain

    Bali is the last place on Earth I expected to find myself. It was – to my mind – too commercial, too overhyped and it had starred in that Julia Roberts tearjerker, Eat Pray Love.

    But I was stirred by an atavistic boyhood dream: a desire to see Komodo dragons on their home turf.

    Part of their allure is that theyʼre so seemingly faraway, and getting to Indonesiaʼs Lesser Sunda islands is neither easy nor cheap. Bali was a seductive base while I investigated inexpensive dragon-chasing adventures – eventually I booked

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