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Mellow street cafes, crammed with grinning old-timers slurping pastis and in the cities, bistros frequented by scores of beautiful young things in skimpy but fashionable outfits, all create a cultural street-life and unique joie de vivre in one of France’s most attractive and homogenous regions – Provence.
Provence means different things to different people [...]
That’s what a policeman asked me and a friend, as we were photographing the medieval-looking barricades, constructed of sandbags, sharpened bamboo poles, barbed wire and car tires, which one has to pass to get into the Ratchaprasong area, Bangkok’s up-scale and shut down shopping district.
It’s like stepping into another country, another world. Downtown Bangkok, according [...]
I am in Ko Tao, South Thailand at the moment, finishing the update for the forthcoming edition of the Thailand Handbuch for German publisher Reise Know How.
Ko Tao, Thailand´s most popular dive destination, lies in the Gulf of Thailand and attracts some 100.000 visitors a year. No doubt, the tourism, above and below the water, [...]
Yesterday, the tense, month long stand-off between the Thai government and the Red shirts, supporters of international fugitive and former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, fought pitched battles around Khao San Road, the backpacker mile in Bangkok, Thailand. Several friends of mine were on site in the Banglamphu area, where more than two million budget tourists [...]
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 by [...]
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Tom Vater’s guide to Cambodia by Moon is out now and available via Amazon. Copies will reach stores across the US in the coming weeks.
Read the publisher’s web page on this brand new title.
Or read an introduction here:
Author, journalist, screenwriter, and researcher Tom Vater leads you on an adventure through Cambodia, from the bustling markets [...]
Since independence from France in 1956, Morocco has been a magnet for writers, artists, backpackers and more recently, well-heeled tourists. Yet with street crime at record heights and few opportunities for the vast army of young, illiterate unemployed, and a monarchy that cares for little more than its survival, time may be running out for [...]