What we did: rested, blog catchup
Budget: 3500 Rupees/$70; Spent: 965 Rupees/$19
We woke up today with big plans. We were to wake up at 7am for breakfast on the rooftop of our hotel at 7:30am. The hotel was even opening the restaurant half an hour early just for us so that we could catch the earliest bus to Chittorgarh, which is a nearby tourist site about 2.5 hours away from Udaipur. We were both really excited to see it. It's not a popular tourist site but it sounded incredible. Much like Civita Di Bagnoreggio in fact, where, if you don't know, Jeff and I got engaged. It's basically a huge fort about 6km wide that is surrounded by huge cliffs. It's like a village in the sky, if you will. Anyway, as fate would have it, we never made it there. On our way back to the room I had an accident in my pants, the first of it's kind and magnitude for me. It started with a sharp pain in my stomach and while I fully knew what letting go of my stomach muscles in order to release the pain meant, I let go anyway. I rushed to the room and I'm sure there's no further details required. India is beating me up pretty good...and now I fully understand why people love and hate India. I tend to lean on the love side, but when for a third day I have been bed ridden due to traveller's diarrhea, I hate India.
We waited a bit to see if my stomach cramps would subside but they only worsened. I slept most of the day, and Jeff tried getting caught up on our blog. Jeff went out to buy some chips and coke for a snack and I stayed in the room and slept some more.
The hotel brought Jeff his dinner of vegetable soup and fried rice to our room. We watched Ice Age 4 and the Bourne Legacy and those were the highlights of the day, for me at least.
Super disappointing day, especially because we leave tomorrow on an overnight train ride to Mumbai and there's no way of us seeing everything we had hoped to see in Udaipur. I guess we'll make the trip back to India one day. Here's hoping tomorrow is a better day. It's beginning to frustrate us that we have missed out on so much simply because we keep getting sick. It's not even that we are taking huge risks in our food selections. I guess we'll have to be even more selective with our meals. No more western food and no more dairy unless it has been boiled.
Have mercy on us India!
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