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“Los mochileros son consumistas” entrevista a Tom Vater
I’ve been interviewed by Editorial Xplora to promote Kathmandu, camino al infierno, the Spanish edition of my first novel The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu which has just been republished in paperback with Crime WavePress. Here’s the lowdown: Tom Vater, escritor y periodista experto en el Sur y Sureste Asiático, lleva viajando y viviendo durante más […]
Continue ReadingDaily Telegraph live webchat on Wednesday 7th from 12.30-2pm
As I am currently the Daily Telegraph’s Bangkok expert, I will be taking part in a live web chat on Southeast Asian travel destinations on Wednesday the 7th of December from 12.30-2pm. London time of course.
Continue ReadingBook Review: Chris Taylor´s Harvest Seaon in The Wall Street Journal
My review of Chris Taylor´s excellent novel Harvest Season is running in The Wall Street Journal this week. A thoughtful meditation on backpacker mayhem in Southern China, quite unlike Alex Garland´s The Beach. Read the full review here.
Continue ReadingTom Vater on Kep in the Asia Wall Street Journal – Now online at the Center for Thai & ASEAN News Study
My AWSJ feature story on Kep, a seaside resort on Cambodia´s southeastern coast, is now available online. In the 1950s and 1960s, Kep-sur-Mer was a popular beach getaway for Cambodia´s elite, who built villas and modest palaces along the beach front and sipped cocktails to the sounds of Khmer Rock’n’Roll. In the 1970s the small […]
Continue ReadingAre You Mad Enough To Be A Travel Writer?
The website Tripbase offer information for would-be travel writers, on the whole very sensible and useful for prospective scribes. The introduction -The harsh realities laid bare- is both sobering and spot-on: Travel writing is a tough and competitive business, a trade for which one needs to have plenty of persistence and low financial expectations – […]
Continue ReadingCairo, Africa´s first city!
This city pulsates. We cruise into town from the airport, Ahmed at the wheel of an old beaten up Peugeot. The traffic is a crazy as anything anywhere, fast, furious and jerky, a sea of cars, old and new, antique and flash, barely functional and elegant, weaving along three aside on a two lane road. […]
Continue ReadingFrom the Archives: Pol Pot’s Sheet Metal Roof
The following text is an account of a journey to the grave of Pol Pot near Anlong Veng, Cambodia in 2002. It is part of my non fiction book Beyond the Pancake Trench – Road Tales from the Wild East, published by Orchid Books in 2005, which made Book of the Week in the South […]
Continue ReadingIn Heiligen Höhen – Tom Vaters neues Buch führt zur Wiege des GangesIn Sacred Heights – Tom Vater’s new book to the cradle of the Ganges
In Heiligen Höhen – Unterwegs zur Wiege des Ganges, ist im März 2008 im Wiesenburg Verlag erschienen. Kaufen Sie diesen Titel beim Amazon.de Schneebedeckte Berggipfel, unheimlich knackende Gletscher, wandernde Asketen und zahllose Pilger; Tempel, Schreine und Karawansereien, britische Hill Stations, dampfende Linsensuppe und im Tonofen gebackenes warmes Brot, abgelegene, Jahrhunderte alte Bergpfade, ab und zu […]
Continue ReadingThe Devil’s Road to Kathmandu – Ein Roman von Tom VaterThe Devil’s Road to Kathmandu – A novel by Tom Vater
Tom Vaters erster Roman, ‘The Devil’s Road To Kathmandu’, ist 2006 in Hong Kong bei Dragon’s Mouth Press einem Imprint von Orchid Books auf Englisch erschienen. When Dan, Tim and Fred, three naive hippies, set off from London to Kathmandu with few funds and a dodgy bus, a drug deal in Pakistan seems like the most common sense […]
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