Asia overland – Tom Vater

From France to Thailand on foot – Western couple find global trek changes perspectives, in Nikkei Asia

June 24, 2022June 24, 2022tom

My latest story in Nikkei Asia follows a Canadian/French couple who set out to walk from Europe to Australia to remind the world that travel is more than a commodity. They sometimes walked up to 14 hours a day, got lost in the jungles of Laos and were involved in a fatal bus crash in […]

The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu – Review

July 24, 2021August 4, 2021tom

Laura at Bookscaretc wrote a great review for The Devil’s Rod to Kathmandu. ….Author Tom Vater is described as working predominantly in Asia, and as well as fiction has been a travel writer. And it is clear from his writing that he has both a deep knowledge and a great love for the environments he […]