Nagaworld Casino Phnom Penh

Nagaworld Casino Phnom Penh - Chris Coles

The gigantic Nagaworld Casino is filled mainly with gamblers from China.  It sits by the river, like factory for Chinese guys, cash and Khmer girls........in a country where most people scratch by on ten or twenty dollars per week if they're lucky, the gamblers and girls go through millions every night.........

Walkabout Bar Phnom Penh

Walkabout Bar Phnom Penh - Chris Coles

Home base for some of Phnom Penh's veteran Expats, cheap beer, hi-carb Western food, raw Khmer girls from Cambodia's poorest and most rural provinces...

Two Chinese Guys Naga Casino

Two Chinese Guys Naga Casino - Chris Coles

The new China is Cambodia's biggest player, trade, investment, loans, weapons, influence and along with that comes hundreds of thousands of Chinese guys, working, playing and chasing girls.......

French Bistro Hostess Bar Phnom Penh

French Bistro Hostess Bar Phnom Penh - Chris Coles

A combination French bistro on the ground floor and terrace.....downstairs, Cambodians from Paris drinking wine and French tourists dining on truffles and snails.......upstairs, Expats, Africans and Indians getting serviced by Khmer girls......

Expat Nitelife Street Phnom Penh

Expat Nitelife Street Phnom Penh - Chris Coles

The usual collection of tuk tuk and motorcycle taxi guys hustling all manner of things from simple rides to smoke-smoke, small-small and yum-yum.  Expats wandering here and there, many of them older, out-of-shape, big stomachs and a little bit drunk, a few foodcarts serving up spicy noodles or meat-on-a-stick and scattered Khmer girls sitting outside saying "hello"..........

Phnom Penh Night Street

Phnom Penh Night Street - Chris Coles

A typical Phnom Penh nitelife street, tuk tuks and motorcycle taxis, food carts, stray dogs, feral cats, trash and garbage that never seems to get cleaned up, hostess bars on either side with girls out front chatting with each other, texting on their mobile phones and hustling wandering Expats.....

Paradis Hotel Phnom Penh

Paradis Hotel Phnom Penh - Chris Coles

Kind of dingy despite the big brightly lit sign in Khmer and Chinese, the strings of blinking lights...just inside the door, seated in a row, about ten Khmer and Vietnamese girls, wearing a selection of brightly colored ballroom gowns....every so often a customer enters, another exits, no Expats, just Khmer and Chinese.......

Street 51 Hostess Bar

Street 51 Hostess Bar - Chris Coles

Busy but cozy, Street 51 is a magnet for Expats on the prowl and swarms of Khmer and Vietnamese girls....a few larger bars, a couple of dance places, including Heart of Darkness, Pontoon...and a bunch of hostess bars, usually with a pool table inside and a little seating area out in front, each one with about ten hostess girls, hustling drinks and barfines....

Phnom Penh Street Girls

Phnom Penh Street Girls - Chris Coles

In small groups of two and three, not really dressed up, a little bit of make-up, pretty quiet, waiting for mostly Khmer men clients, not an Expat game at all..........

Late Nite Street 51 Phnom Penh

Late Nite Street 51 Phnom Penh - Chris Coles

Late night on Street 51 is full of little blinking lights, random music tracks, the calls of hello girls, motorcylces, tuk tuk guys hustling fares, Expats from all over the world, Europe, Australia, Russia, the Middle East, even Africa, and cute Khmer and Vietnamese girls....

Phnom Penh Lo-End Massage Place

Phnom Penh Lo-End Massage Place

Not much excitement or "fun", just basic survival......the Khmer guys who are the "clients" make even less than the "girls"......

Lo-End Phnom Penh Brothel

Lo-End Phnom Penh Brothel

They wait just inside the door for the Khmer men who will be their customers.....the sex is very quick, the money small.......

Phnom Penh Niteclub

Phnom Penh Niteclub Brothel - Chris Coles

A bit of neon, bright lights, satin and silk, a few girls waiting for Khmer or Chinese customers......after so many years of the Khmer Rouge, so many millions put to death, maybe commercial sex has its good points...or at least is not so bad.....

3AM in the Phnom Penh Night

3AM in the Phnom Penh Night - Chris Coles

It's 3AM in the Phnom Penh night and things are kind of blurry....the heat....the swarms of Expats....the music....the girls.....

Khmer Niteclub in Phnm Penh

Khmer Niteclub in Phnom Penh - Chris Coles

On the dark street, the glow of neon, a few girls, not much going on or money to be made, just a few Khmer tuk tuk guys hoping to score....

Paradise Hotel Phnom Penh

Paradise Hotel Phnom Penh - Chris Coles

A few girls sit just inside the lobby, bored, listless, texting on their smart phones, customers' motorcycles outside the entrance, watched over by the security guy......

Phnom Penh Nightclub

Phnom Penh Niteclub - Chris Coles

Off-duty police and army guys watch the doors and parking......inside Expats young and old, fat and slim, handsome and ugly, some with jobs, some with NGO's, some on the loose, a few of the entitled children of Phnom Penh's "Big Men", and plenty of Khmer girls, fresh from the countryside...