hill station – 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 […]

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 […]

Kep – Cambodia´s Seaside Revival – in The Asia Wall Street Journal

July 2, 2010July 2, 2010tomLeave a Comment

Together with photographer Luke Duggleby, I visited Kep, a small town on Cambodia´s south eastern coast. First populated by French colonial administrators at the beginning of the 20th century, Kep became something like Cambodia´s St. Tropez in the 1960s, with rock bands playing on the beach and King Norodom Sihanouk cavorting and partying as if […]

In Heiligen Höhen – Leseprobe – Aus dem Leben der Anglo-Inder

June 28, 2010June 28, 2010tomLeave a Comment

Hier ein Auszug aus meinem Buch, In Heiligen Höhen – Unterwegs zur Wiege des Ganges, im Wiesenburg Verlag erschienen. Das folgende Kapitel beschreibt mein Treffen mit Hugh und Colleen Gantzer, Ehepaar, Schriftsteller, Fotografen und Filmproduzenten, zu Hause in Mussoorie, Nordindien. Die Gantzers sind Anglo-Inder und beschäftigen sich vor allem mit der eigenen Identität im heutigen […]