The Land of Smiles? 

21 images, Stitched Panorama

This region of Thailand is near the elbow-bend of the great mother of river - Mehkong , underneath this rice field is a layer of potash (the largest field in Asia), then natural gas, then OIL!!, no wonder its not been promoted, no wonder they've not tried to preserve the numerous ancient buddhist relics, fossil fields. 30 km southeast of this spot locates archaeological findings dating back to stone and bronze age societies of S.E. Asia.

... some people just can't live without their SUVs ...

we have technology to land people on Mars and the Moon, for a tiny fraction of any defense budget, we can have ELECTRIC VEHICLE technology - and forget about Oil ...
example #1 - TH!NK sustainable mobility : www.think.no