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Tom Vater’s up-coming travel guide to Cambodia, a Moon Handbook, will be published in February 2010. For this first edition title, Tom spent almost six months traveling to every corner of the South East Asian kingdom, covering all major and many minor sites – from Angkor Wat to remote temple ruins lost in the jungle, […]
Continue ReadingTom Vater’s up-coming travel guide to Cambodia, a Moon Handbook, will be published in February 2010. For this first edition title, Tom spent almost six months traveling to every corner of the South East Asian kingdom, covering all major and many minor sites – from Angkor Wat to remote temple ruins lost in the jungle, […]
Continue ReadingDie Titelseite des brandneuen Reiseführers von Tom Vater über Kambodscha. Der Titel erscheint im Herbst 2009 im Verlag Moon in den USA. Check out the cover of Tom Vater’s up-coming travel guide to Cambodia, a Moon Handbook, out in October 2009.
Continue ReadingJetzt gibt es eine DVD (seit wann weiss ich nicht) des Dokumentarfilms über Kambodscha “Angkor – steinernes Herz der Khmer” von Marc Eberle (Drehbuch Marc Eberle/Tom Vater). Produziert für die SWR-Reihe “Länder-Menschen-Abenteuer” Angkor Wat, der Welt größtes sakrales Bauwerk, ist das Herzstück des tausendjährigen Khmer-Reiches in Kambodscha. Die einstige Herrscherresidenz mit mehr als 1.000 – den […]
Continue ReadingWhat do Nawi, a middle-aged Khmer woman living in a dusty village in north-west Cambodia, and Angelina Jolie, who lives in Beverly Hills, have in common? In their own ways they are both diminishing the cultural heritage of Cambodia. And they are both tomb raiders. But the reasons for the two women’s respective actions could […]
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