article_snippet: First lady Michelle Obama's recent trip to Cambodia this month cost taxpayers $242,500 – for hotel rooms alone – allowing Michelle Obama to perform Michelle Obama offical duties at two events for a total of 33 minutes.
article_snippet: First lady Michelle Obama and First lady Michelle Obama retinue stayed this month, boasts Cambodia's largest free-form swimming pool .
article_snippet: First lady Michelle Obama's lodgings were among the finest Cambodia has to offer international tourists .
article_snippet: First lady Michelle Obama made the most of what became the first trip by a sitting US president's wife to Cambodia, visiting Angkor Wat temple in Siem Reap province .
article_snippet: First lady Michelle Obama took full advantage, the White House Press Office relayed, visiting the Angkor Temples at Angkor Wat when First lady Michelle Obama wasn't meeting-and-greeting embassy staff.
article_snippet: Michelle Obama walked with Cambodian first lady Bun Rany (right), the wife of Prime Minister Hun Sen, as they arrived at a school where they met with a group of 10 female students for 21 minutes .
article_snippet: Michelle Obama Hotel Justification for Cambodia uploaded by DailyMail.com .
highlights_snippet: Luxury hotel included butler service, a top-notch spa and 'the largest free form swimming pool in Cambodia'
  Trip was earmarked as a female-empowerment exercise but the State Department shoehorned Michelle Obama travel into a document that refers to a VIP 'and HIS traveling staff' 