Figure 10.16: Development of the Asian Highway: Transportation infrastructure for tourism. Many of the Southeast Asian World Heritage Sites are located along the partially completed Asian Highway, which will eventually connect Europe to Indonesia. The UNESCAP report, “Development of the Asian Highway,” describes the project and includes a map of the entire system. (A) Buddha heads sculpted from stone at the Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia, the largest religious monument in the world.
[Sources consulted: “World Heritage List,” UN World Heritage Convention, at http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/; “Tourism Attractions Along the Asian Highway,” UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2004, at http://www.unescap.org/our- n-