Tom Vater

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December 21st, 2006 | Tags: Akha, Bergvölker, Hmong, Karen, Kulturschock Bergvölker und Seenomaden, Lahu, Lisu, Mien, Minderheiten, Reise Know How Verlag, Seenomaden, Thailand, Thailand-Rundschau, Thailands Bergvölker, Thailands Minderheiten, Tom Vater | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment

Bernhard Trink – The Bangkok Post Global trekking across Asia is becoming increasingly difficult. War, terrorism, ever tighter Immigration rules are blocking the traditional land routes. And travel by plane doesn’t qualify as backpacking. Authors of wayfaring novels must set them years ago to make them plausible. Which is what British freelance journalist Tom Vater [...]

November 30th, 2006 | Tags: Bangkok Post, Bernhard Trink, Thailand, The Devil's Road to Kathmandu, Tom Vater | Category: India, Nepal, Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment

When Dan, Tim and Fred, three naive hippies, set off from London to Kathmandu with few funds and a dodgy bus, a drug deal in Pakistan seems like the most common sense way to make the journey pay. But the mountains of the Hindu Kush, a mysterious Frenchman, a set of Iranian Siamese Twins cum nightclub singers, [...]

October 22nd, 2006 | Tags: backpacker, Bernard Trink, Buddhism, crime fiction, Don Messerschmidt, Dragon´s Mouth, drugs, Himalaya, hippy trail, India, Iran, Kathmandu, Nepal, North West Frontier, novel, Orchid Press, Pakistan, Pashtun, Peshawar, Peter Myers, Ron Gluckman, sex, Siamese Twins, The Devil's Road to Kathmandu, The Devil´s Road to Kathmandu, thriller, Tom Vater, travel, travel fiction, travel literature | Category: India, Nepal, Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment

Kulturschock Bergvölker und Seenomaden (Cultureshock Thailand’s Hill Tribes and Sea Nomads) was published in Oktober 2006 with Reise Know How Verlag in Germany. The book is an introduction to several minorities living in Thailand, including the Akha, Lisu, Karen, Lahu, Hmong and Mien in Nort Thailand and the Moken sea-nomads on the Andaman Coast. History and tradition [...]

September 11th, 2006 | Tags: Akha, Bergvölker, Bergvölker Nordthailands, Hmong, Karen, Kulturschock, Lahu, Lisu, Mien, Nordthailand, Reise Know How Verlag, Seenomaden, Thailand, Tom Vater, Trekking, Trekking in Nordthailand, Yao | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment

Since 2006, Tom Vater is co-author of the popular german travel guides Thailand Handbuch und Thailands Süden mit Bangkok, with Rainer Krack

August 13th, 2006 | Tags: Rainer Krack, Reise Know How Verlag, Reiseführer Thailand, Thailand, Thailand Handbuch, Tom Vater | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment