![]() ![]() Now, are you ready to go see the dragons?” ![]() “No really, they’re actually just baby mangrove markers that tourists bought to restore the forest. ![]() On each stick, a date and a foreigner’s name was scrawled in white paint. Safina laughed while gesturing to a row of little wooden crosses stuck in the nearby mud. Standing in front of an assembly line of water buffalo, deer and wild horse skulls – dragon chow – Mr. He’d lived on Rinca – a speck of land off Indonesia’s Flores Island, and one of the five places Komodo dragons reside – his whole life, and he was used to the various horror stories that surfaced every now and then after a tourist wandered off the trail or a kid got ambushed while playing in the bush. Safina, a local guide working at Komodo National Park, took a particular relish in describing the way a Komodo dragon’s strong jaws can snap a man’s leg in two. A Komodo dragon lounges near the Komodo National Park welcome center on Rinca Island. ![]()
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