French – Tom Vater

Return to Bokor Mountain, Cambodia

July 31, 2015May 25, 2022tom4 Comments

I’ve just been back to Bokor Hill Sation, one of Cambodia‘s most beautiful and haunted spots. Rising a thousand meter above the kingdom’s southeastern coast, Bokor has been developed three times. In the 1920s, the French cleared some of the jungle on the way up, built a road with the help of 9000 kulis […]

From the Archives: Postcard from Provence

April 2, 2011July 23, 2011tom6 Comments

I published the following story about Provence, a wine growing region in southern France a couple of years ago. At the time of writing, I was just getting to know the protagonists of the text. I stayed in touch with all of them. Eric Bouletin continues to grow excellent wine and Junko Takase continues to […]

My favorite Building – The Bokor Casino

July 28, 2010June 7, 2012tom5 Comments

Do Not Sleep Here “Today, you dead,” the Cambodian soldier hisses into Matt Dillon’s face and throws the American actor to the ground of a dilapidated room. Seconds later, James Caan and a group of gangsters shoot it out on a patchy lawn in front of a dark, imposing building, while doom-laden fog drifts up […]