If you go to the temples here, as everybody does, you will meet the local children, and young women.
Or rather, you will be the target of their concerted sales effort.
They speak English quite well, and told me that they go to school either in the morning or the afternoon, from about 7 until 11 oclock is typical.

Panha explained that the children help support their family by going to sell to tourists at all the popular sites. They have packs of 10 postcards for $1, wooden cow bells, flutes, scarves, sarongs, cloth bags, woven table mats and baskets and a hugh collection of nice things.

Near the entrance to the temple sites you might be unlucky and have to use the public toilets, or if you are lucky, your guide knows where the tourist toilets have been built. These are new, immaculately clean, with an attendant, running water, but entry only with the Angkor temple site pass.

Anyway, to get to the dogs - hear the little stall sites, I noticed quite a lot of dogs lying in the sand. Panha explained that they live there and are fed by the guards, and that the black dogs are quite prized by some people.

The reason is that in some parts of Cambodia dogs are still eaten, and it is the black dogs that are most likely to be eaten, they are most prized as food. I felt rather sorry for the two little black puppies.

So quite a few animals end up in the kitchen. Apart from eating though, there are handsome fighting cocks strutting about with their hens. They are actually used to fight, in the villages.I also saw fighting cocks in wicker cages, a bit like old fashioned lobster pots, when on the train going from Bangkok in Thailand.

The monkeys though, are fed and played with, and the ones I saw at the edge of the road seemed relatively quite and tame.

The fish that live in the paddy fields are prized as food, and the little homes have woven fish traps hanging up outside. They are beautifully made, quite a little work of art.
Fish farms are common too, these seem tobe small pits of water nearby the houses. Of course on the lake Tonle Sap, there are over 650 diffirent types of fish, and fishing, netting and farming is a very huge industry. The fish are exported to Thailand and other countries. Did not see any fishing rods though.