Tom Vater

Excellent promo shot by Aroon Thaewchatturat!!! who also took the pictures in this guide to the Khmer ruins. Published in November 2012.

February 1st, 2013 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, book, Cambodia, CityTrip Angkor Wat, guide book, Kambodscha, Reise Know How Verlag, Reise-Know-How, Reiseführer, Reiseführer Kambodscha, South East Asia, Tom Vater | Category: Cambodia | Leave a comment

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August 15th, 2011 | Tags: Angkor, Autor, City Trip, Kambodscha, Reise-Know-How, Rezension, Siem Reap, Tom Vater | Category: Cambodia, Germany | Leave a comment

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July 4th, 2011 | Tags: Angkor, Angkor Wat, Autor, Besprechung, Elke Nibbrig, information, Kambodscha, Reise-Know-How, Reiseführer, Rezension, Siem Reap, Tom Vater, Urlaub | Category: Cambodia | Comments (1)

Just watched Bradley Cox‘s excellent documentary Who killed Chea Vichea? – the  story about the murder of a trade union leader in Cambodia in 2004. This gripping 55 minute feature is a roller-coaster investigative journey into a tragic political killing and by extension, a story about a country ruled by impunity. And just to prove [...]

February 2nd, 2011 | Tags: Bradley Cox, Cambodia, censorship, Chiang Mai, corruption, culture of impunity, documentary, government, impunity, Kambodscha, Lifescapes SE Asian Film Festival, political assassination, political murder, Sam Rainsy, Thailand, Who killed Chea Vichea | Category: Cambodia, Thailand | Leave a comment

My new guide to the ruins of Angkor in Cambodia is published on the 4th of January 2011, by Germany`s largest independent travel publisher Reise Know How. The book contains almost a hundred color images by photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat, as well as maps of all the temples, a fold-out plan of the Angkor Archaeological Park [...]

January 3rd, 2011 | Tags: Angkor, Angkor Archaelogical Park, Angkor Ruinen, Angkor Thom, Aroon Thaewchatturat, Autor, Cambodia, City Trip, guide book, Kambodscha, Khmer, Reise-Know-How, Reiseführer, Scott Nicholson, Siem Reap, Tom Vater, travel writer, writer | Category: Cambodia, Germany | Leave a comment

I am currently in the final stages of editing my manuscript for City Trip Angkor, a German language guide to the temples in Cambodia. It´s been a fun book to write, crammed with new info on how to spend a long weekend in Siem Reap and the Angkor Archaelogical Park, as well as descriptions of [...]

September 30th, 2010 | Tags: Angkor, Cambodia, Cambodia travel guide, Kambodscha, Reise-Know-How, Reiseführer, Siem Reap, Tom Vater | Category: Cambodia | Leave a comment

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July 7th, 2010 | Tags: Angkor, Angkor Wat, Autor, Bayon, Cambodia, City Trip, Führer, guide book, Kambodscha, Khmer, Reise-Know-How, Reisebuch, Reiseführer, Siem Reap, Ta Prohm, Tempel, Tom Vater | Category: Cambodia | Leave a comment

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 [...]

March 25th, 2010 | Tags: Arbeit, Arbeiter, Armut, Cambodia, economy, exploitation, farmer, field, heat, Hungerlohn, industry, irrigation, Kambodscha, Kampot, manual labour, photograph, photography, poverty, Salt, salt farm, salt flield, Salz, Schufterei, South East Asia, sun, Tom Vater, work, worker | Category: Cambodia | Leave a comment

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.

March 23rd, 2010 | Tags: 2010, Cambodia, guide book, Kambodscha, Moon, Moon Handbooks, Moon Spotlight Angkor, South East Asia, Tom Vater, travel guide | Category: Cambodia | Leave a comment