The book of 11 chapters tries to look at the Southeast Asian region from an external (Western) perspective. The European perspective of Southeast Asia covers over 2,000 years of history. The first European cartographic definition of the region was found in Claudius Ptolemy’s 1st century AD atlas: Map 11 was dedicated to Southeast Asia entitled India beyond the Ganges. The European definition of the region was revived in the late 15th century with travellers and traders coming to the region and formulating their perceptions of the region. In this study, I use nature and landscape to represent the intimate Western experiences in the region and how these perceptions kept changing their definitions of the Southeast Asian region.