Today was a rest day for our tired legs but it ended up being longer than expected.
We had a lazy morning gorging on mangoes at breakfast and playing games (air hockey, pool and foosball). Then we headed out to stretch our legs but it started raining so we were back to our hotel.
Second attempt in the afternoon to do the short circuit in the island (turned out to be not that short). We passed a beach then a set of ruins of a farmhouse which had been a quarantine place for cholera and then a prison. Next up was the aqueducts which are still in use. There was a sign for a waterfall but no time or distance so we started along, after 15minutes of no sign of a waterfall we decided to soldier on for 5 minutes longer. We then met a woman returning who told us it was another 20-30 minutes, as we had already started we decided to continue. There were slippery hills along the way which was not the best in our flip flops. Anyway we made it to the waterfall where we got the fright of our lives when Jeevan slipped on a rock and into the water pool. He tried to grasp on to something but there was nothing to hold on to and he had both our phones. It made me think of a friend’s death at a waterfall but luckily we got him out with a few scrapes and nothing more.
We made our way back discussing that we would not have done this had we known the hills and slipperiness, we would not have ventured to it on our day off.
We were too knackered for the beach after that so returned for the scrumptious afternoon tea at our hotel.
Dinner was at beachside restaurant, the food was fabulous but was odd to see that the bill included a cost for the live music! The people seated next to us were on a Google translate date, was fun watching them.
In the end, our so-called rest day was anything but restful—equal parts frightening and fulfilling—but it wrapped up on a high note.
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