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Kampot, southern Cambodia. The heat is infernal. Several salt farms lie outside of this small, sleepy riverside town. Large fields irrigated with saltwater stretch for miles across a flat and hot expanse. The evergreen Elephant Mountains loom in the distance, reflected in the stagnant shallow brine. Men and women, wrapped up in cloth against the [...]
Tom Vater’s Moon Spotlight Angkor is available now. This 60 page guide to the magnificent Angkor temples in Cambodia is part of Tom Vater’s Moon Cambodia Handbook, published in February 2010.
Moon Cambodia author Tom Vater has recently completed an interview for Moon Guides about travel in Cambodia.
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As Asian politicians, business elites and even the region’s poor are dreaming of turning their cities – from China to Cambodia – into futuristic Bladerunner-style neon ghettos, the United Arab Emirates appear to be well ahead in creating superlative anti-people environments. On January 4th 2010, Dubai gave the world a fantastically absurd New Year’s present [...]
I have opened an author page on Amazon (Author Central) which will keep Amazon surfers abreast of my activities. Not all of my titles are currently featured there, but readers will find a page with info on publications and a new blog , as well as other news from my literary twilight zone.