Street Corner Phnom Penh Night

Street Corner Phnom Penh Night - Chris Coles

They wait on every corner of Phnom Penh, day and night, one step down from the tuk tuk guys, one step up from the guys who pedal the rickshaws, sometimes sleeping on their motorcycle's seat, using public toilets to shower and shave........hoping to make at least 2 dollars a day......

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..........

Phnom Penh Street

Phnom Penh Street - Chris Coles

A ratty tuk tuk parked on a ratty Phnom Penh Street, the driver reading a newspaper while he waits for a customer...........

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......

Motorcycle Taxi Guy Phnom Penh

Motorcycle Taxi Guy Phnom Penh - Chris Coles

He's been waiting by the bar for an hour to deliver the girl to a customer at one of the tourist hotels by the river.....she always pays him double the going rate and he waits to make sure she's ok..........

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"..........

Sharky Bar Phnom Penh Entrance

Sharky Bar Phnom Penh Entrance - Chris Coles

The motorcycle taxi guys sometimes wait for hours to get a customer. the tuk tuks too.....upstairs there's a live rock 'n roll band, plenty of beer, a couple of pool tables, a bunch of long-stay Expats and girls, Khmer and Vietnamese....there're even a couple of female Barangs............

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.......

Phnom Penh Street Corner

Phnom Penh Street Corner - Chris Coles

So much action on every street corner in the Phnom Penh night, the motorcycle taxi and tuk tuk guys, the Expats, the girls, street dogs, stray cats. a few rats, hard to keep track of it all......