Given that we really save a lot by posing as locals, we were instructed to introduce ourselves as students from Manipur...and I gave the game away twice (though nothing much happenedHah! The diarrhea finally hits us and it's infectious. Once someone spoke of it, it enters the mind of all those who heard it. From a single rush to the toilet to everyone queuing outside every toilet at all tourist attractions. The morning consists of just pills and toilet paper. Thank God I'm still feeling fine.
So basically, today is a traveling day, where we were suppose to get to Ooty city. But before leaving, we were to pay a visit to Paul. Paul is the auditor for Sumanahalli, and was responsible for helping us get accommodation at Wayanud. A little more abt Paul, he founded the Anoop Foundation in memory of his late son. His son drowned in a river 4 years ago during a football match and Paul set up the trust foundation in his name. The foundation sponsors education and sports, giving children below the age of 13 opportunities to try out new things such as swimming, rifle and archery. From Paul's office, we went to another NGO audited by Paul which focuses on conservation and cultivation of medicinal herbs.
The visit to Paul's office set us back abt 3.5 hours, from there it's a mad rush to Ooty. The journey there was rather torturous...imagine a bus full of sickly passengers worried abt soiling their pants. Gone were the times where we sang like "rolling in the deep" etc on the bus. Reach near Ooty around 4pm where we had lunch! And guess what!!! WIFI!!! Been deprived of wifi for the past several days (yes, I'm a slave to wifi, but who cares). Was informed that the peak we were suppose to visit will be closed at 530 (it was 515 alr) and we decided to make some changes to the itinerary
I guess we were all for going for some form of massage/pedicure/facial, so we went online to look for beauty parlors in Ooty. Decided to do a facial there and we spent almost 2hours there pampering ourselves. Went for dinner after. Did I mention that it was C's birthday. Midway through dinner, Ja and I went to look for candles and found one which cost 40 rupees. It's like 8 candles in one which is suppose to open up like a lotus flowers and plays a short music as well. Got a cake from the restaurant...apparently, the girls wanted to give him a surprise too and ordered cakes as well (aren't we all so sweet?). So we sang bday song like twice with twice the number of cakes.
After the bday celebration, it was to the hostel. No wifi, but at least there's hot water! :)
Mark!
PS: I think I might have VD (violent diarrhea)
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