According to the receipts I collected:

$40.00 (Php 1920.00) for 3 day pass for Angkor. Payment was thru a ticket booth halfway between Siem Reap center and Angkor. A photo is taken and is printed on the ticket; this is to avoid second-hand tickets. You loose the ticket in Angkor and they charge you $30.00. Pass for 2 days also costs $40.00, same same. Most of the temples have stationed guards that ask for the ticket before you enter. It was good that I had an arrangement with the tuktuk driver that I leave the hotel at 5:30AM to catch the sunrise, so there was no queue at all.

$10.00 (Php 4800.00) which I exchanged for Vietnamese Dong. The exchange rate was 17,870.00 VND per USD. I think this was in the airport. Their booth is in the leftmost side money exchange counters towards the exit of Tan Son Nath Airport. From there, I walked towards the domestic terminal nearby where I found Bus 152 which goes to Pam Ngu Lao. By the way, the bus fare was just 3,000VND (Php 8.00) and it goes straight to the backpacker’s area. The problem with me was that I was disoriented when I got off the bus. I had a difficult time looking for the hotel where I have a reservation, which turned out to be just a few steps away from the bus stop!

$3.60 (Php 172.80) this was for a meal or actually an afternoon snack in Popular Guesthouse. They have a restaurant on the right side. Popular Guesthouse is a nice place to stay. The first night I stayed on a $12 (Php 576.00) room but to cut cost I transferred to a $5 room, or was it $6.

Laundry for $1.90 for 1.9kg in Siem Reap. I needed this because I only had a bag of clothes with me, just enough for 3 days. This was in front of the hotel where I stayed. In the hotel it was $2.00 per kg. The clothes were hand washed but I didn’t like the strings (yarn) they placed on each piece probably was an ID.

$3.00 entrance fee to the National Museum of Cambodia. This museum is in Phnom Penh and contains many displays arranged around the building on a circular manner. It’s not so big and it didn’t take me more than 5 minutes to finish viewing all. I actually liked more the museum in Siem Reap which presented everything on a better way so I was forced to spend more time inside. Besides, the displays there include audio and video presentations. It was a nice rest visiting the Siem Reap Museum after a long morning in Angkor.

Php 127.00 for my Jollibee breakfast in NAIA. It turned out that I needed this because of the immigration officer which required me to produce a week of hotel booking, which I did not have because it was not part of my itinerary. Thankfully, I had a Lonely Planet with me with a list of hotels in Pam Ngu Lao. Thankfully also, the receptionist of Yellow House Hostel was also online at that time. I called via my phone (no bill yet!) and made a follow up via YM. She could not hear me clearly in the phone, no thanks to the PA of NAIA Centennial Terminal which frequently pages for lost people. I asked her to e-mail me a “confirmation of the booking of Mr. Xxx Xxxxxx at Yellow House Hotel for a week paid via credit card number xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-5467.” I received the e-mail a few minutes later. I had to go to an internet café near the Old Domestic Terminal to have it printed. (Taxi Php 100.00, printing and internet Php 75.00)

Php 1,620.00 Philippine Travel Tax, no comment.

VND 38,000 for Pho Bo and Tac Muoi in Pho Quynh which is a small restaurant in Pam Ngu Lao. It’s for a big bowl of beef noodles and (I can’t remember the other one, probably a beverage, tea maybe because at this time I still have not tasted their coffee). The noodles come with a platter of a forest of vegetables and chili and lemon on another plate.

VND 125,000 ($7.35) for 2 bottles of Saigon Beer and burger in Allez Boo which is a prominent restaurant in the corner of Bui Vien and Pam Ngu Lao. Beer was 30,000 VND each, around 80 pesos per big bottle, just like the big Red Horse. The beer tastes good, actually less bitter than SMB.