Phnom Penh
Cambodia's Capital City

"Phnom Penh; uncontrolled intersections, open sewers, stagnant pools, scum and garbage strewn down side streets and vacant lots, amputee-beggers, squatters, prostitutes, lawlessness, blackouts.  Welcome to Cambodia.  In the rainy season the muck floats as the monsoon rains deluge the streets, while foreigners from aid groups show off their 4wds and cellular phones.

Phnom Penh is a mess.  Sanitary conditions are poor because of destroyed water and sewage facilities.  Up to 20% of all households do not have toilets.  When the first rains hit, the streets are flooded; the sewer system doesn't function, and there's no money to repair water pumping machinery.  Drains and sewers are clogged with garbage. There is a chronic lack of education facilities and teachers.

Forty five percent of Phnom Penh's population is under the age of 15, and there are roving bands of street kids, many from the provinces..."

Phnom Penh and ferry on Tonle Sap river	Phnom Penh from air
Wat (Buddhist Temple)	Wat and homes along the Tonle Bassac River
Phnom Penh's Pochentong Airport.  Reconstructed after 1997 coup	Boarding Bangkok Airway ATR-72 aircraft in Phnom Penh Airport
Women wash clothes at Phnom Penh riverside	Riverside hygiene
Homeless family	Children playing along Phnom Penh riverside
Pedicab passengers	Carnival
Phnom Penh doctors office poster  illustrating ailments cured	Shoppers
Street	Sign Delivery
Foreign Correspondants Club of Cambodia Depicted in "Killing Fields" movie where Sydney Schanberg and Dith Pran watched Khmer Rouge approach city before retreating to French Embassy.  Confluence of the Tonle and Mekong rivers in background.	Entrace to Foreign Correspondants Club of Cambodia
Coffin Store	One of Phnom Penh's many "happy" eateries
Seamstresses and soldiers at Central Market	Central Market
Early morning Buddhist funeral procession	Svay Pak "house"
Live roosters on motobike	Brothel
PPePedicab	Blues Guitarist
Railway car	Vietnamese squatter village at edge of city
Street cleaner in market.  Many of Phnom Penh's streets are unpaved rubble and mud.  Destroyed by years of tank traffic.	Phnom Penh Railway Station
Gasoline vending	National Museum
Street vendors	Martini's Nightclub
Main Wat (Budhist temple) in Phnom Penh	Ganja Sales Executive
Phnom Penh evening attire - Vietnam era M60 (Rambo gun)	Policeman
Highway sign	Used motobike parts at Russian Market
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Street	Pedicab passenger
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