Covering close to 1.4 million hectares, Kerinci-Seblat National Park is one of the largest conservation areas in Southeast Asia, and harbours the oldest tropical rainforest in Asia. The National Park protects the world's largest flowers and hundreds of plants and animals not found anywhere else in the world. It also nestles several mountain lakes, notably Danau Gunung Tujuh (danau means lake) or "Lake of Seven Mountains," the highest caldera lake in Southeast Asia, with an altitude of almost 2,000 meters (ASEAN/JICA/UNEP, undated).