Thoroughly exhausted after the hot weather we booked into a guest house with air conditioning and cable TV. After a day or two of A/C, movies and good Indian food we were ready to venture out for a couple more day trips. The first one took us to tea and coffee plantations, a minority community as well as waterfalls. The second one took us to some of the very old ruins of Um Mung and Wat Phu Champasak.