Over the long-finished meal, a very passable Thai curry on red rice and magnificent coconut ice cream, Genny told the President of a few of the dozens of wonders she’d toured, both in Southeast Asia and other places around the world. From the Phong Nha-Ke Bang Park of Vietnam, the largest karst limestone cave system on the planet, where the largest cave in the world had only been discovered in 2009, large enough to hold a New York City block, including its forty-story high skyscrapers. To the Buddhist Temple of Borobudur in Indonesia, lost for six hundred years in the jungle and second only to Angkor Wat. She’d also entered the Caves of Lascaux, not the replica that had been set up for tourists, but the original, now so carefully protected against further degradation due to moisture.
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