Nite Cafe Phnom Penh

Nite Cafe Phnom Penh - Chris Coles

Scattered around the Phnom Penh night, in between the pools of darkness, there are more and more Nite Cafe's......liter bottles of Angkor beer, Khmer pop music, spicy food, snacks, warm and lively conversation,  a re-knitting of the social fabric after so many years of destruction............

Night Street Phnom Penh

Night Street Phnom Penh - Chris Coles

Not much traffic, kind of quiet, the chatter of the motorcycle taxi guys and melancholic Khmer love song drifting through the hot tropical night..........

Wedding Island Banquet Hall Phnom Penh

 

Banquet Hall, Phnom Penh Wedding Island - Chris Coles

A thousand guests, all dressed up, sit down to eat, drink and celebrate a hi-end super expensive Cambodian wedding between someone somehow connected to a "Big Man" to someone else connected to another "Big Man"......live band, Khmer pop singer, dancers...lots of gifts, some of them cash stuffed in envelopes....it's the new Phnom Penh, the new Cambodia, rising from the ashes of the Khmer Rouge nightmare....