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Destination Cambodia at Ashfield Library 9 Jul 2013 | 02:51 am
Authors at Ashfield: Walter Mason talks about his new book Destination Cambodia Ashfield Library Thursday, 5 September 2013 from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM (EST) Ashfield Library, Sydney, NSW Walter Mas.....
Sampeah 22 Jan 2013 | 04:20 am
I find myself writing about the sampeah quite a lot in my new book, because it is a gesture that fascinates me. For those who don't know, the sampeah is the greeting gesture found throughout Southeas...
Banteay Srei 20 Jan 2013 | 03:13 am
Banteay Srei is the exquisite and quite compact pink sandstone temple that sits about 30 kilometres away from the main temple of Angkor Wat. It was constructed as a religious retreat by a Hindu priest...
Stone Giants 27 Dec 2012 | 03:23 am
Photo by Walter Mason "Below these bruised and battered countenances...stands a causeway. On either side of it are seated fifty-four stone giants, twenty feet tall as they squat, restraining or, as t...
Monday Blogcrawl 10 Dec 2012 | 05:01 am
My Cambodia book now stands at a ridiculous number of words, but is still entirely unpolished and nowhere near finished. My publisher is going to hate me. Here is some Cambodia-related info from the w...
Cambodian Soap Operas 1 Nov 2012 | 04:55 am
Just before I left for Cambodia, earlier this year, I read an article about a British television producer, one of the people behind the iconic show Eastenders, who had moved to Cambodia and was now pr...
Monday Blogcrawl 29 Oct 2012 | 02:56 am
I am anxiously awaiting the forthcoming release of the anthology Phnom Penh Noir, which features a chilling story from my dear friend Suong Mak. It will be in stores at the end of November, so keep an...
Mango Madness, Monsoon Sadness - a Krom song 5 Oct 2012 | 06:38 am
This video just grows and grows on me - I love the song and the mood. Equal parts William Burroughs, Tom Waits and Bob Dylan, this song evokes a mythic side of Phnom Penh, a noir-ish aspect that is be...
So You Want to Write a Travel Book? 27 Sep 2012 | 12:53 pm
I often get approached by people who want to write and publish their own travel book. More and more I am inclined to tell people that before they consider anything they should spend a period of time h...
The Wat 20 Sep 2012 | 08:57 am
I have been reading Vittorio Roveda and Sothon Yem's simply exquisite Buddhist Painting in Cambodia, probably the most fascinating, and certainly the most beautiful, book about Cambodian Buddhism. I ...
