ESCAPE Penang

This guide to ESCAPE Penang follows Sim Choo Kheng from a 1998 theme park project outside Ho Chi Minh City, where he watched local children climbing trees and spinning tops, to the morning in November 2012 when he stood at the gate of the rainforest park he built on that idea. You'll hear how investors wanted roller coasters and banks called his pitch unbankable, and what he did with his own savings on a patch of former construction dumping ground instead. Listen for how his team later replanted the wrecked land around you with thousands of trees.