The Skye Scotland Tour Highlights

• Our guide for the tour (who was obviously a very important cog in our wheel called the 'Scotland tour'!) was a very jovial and lovely girl named Pippa. She was a typical Socttish - extremely patriotic and self-obsessive. All the Scots hate the Brits like hell. They think that they invented every feasible gadget in this world!!!
• She challenged us with several funny and interesting riddles as part of our long journey. Some of them were: (Answers at the end of article)
  
  1) What is that the extremely poor people have, that the extremely rich people don't need, that is greater than God?? Clue : If you eat it, you will die!!
  
  2) A guy, his wife and two kids are going out in their car on a stormy night. Suddenly, the car slips off the road and is now perilously hanging on the cliff. He managed to get off the car and run for help. But his wife and kids are still stuck in the car. He goes up to a near by ranch-house and knocks on the door. However, when the person (owner) opens the door and this guys manages to look inside a little bit, he sees something in the house, screams in panic and runs for his own life without thinking about his family. What did he see in the house and what made him so scared???
  
  3) A guy switches off the lights in his house, goes out for a few drinks. Then he comes back, looks out the window and kills himself. Why did he take such a drastic decision just looking out the window??
  
• We went for a short hiking trip on a mountain and it was extremely slippery. We made it up to the summit OK (although it was a really hard hike). However, the real fun started while coming down. I slipped and fell off 5 times getting mud all over my clothes.
• Our guide made us dip our heads in a freaking chilly lake based on the myths held by the Scots that whoever dips their head in that lake will become beautiful than ever!!!
• We tried a different alcoholic drink every night!! Whisky, wine, gin everything!!
  
• It was raining all the 72-hours we were in Scotland!
• We visited the village set area made for the movie Braveheart.
• There were 2 Americans, 1 Japanese, 2 Indian (the two of us!) and 15 Australians in our tour bus.
• Most of the Australians were fairly young (20-25 years old) and they were doing their so-called "Travelling Internship"!! From what I believe, most of the Australians love travelling and they don't even care for their careers. They take up odd jobs wherever they are and live/travel out of that income. I just happened to talk to a collegue who came back from a project and he has traveled 48 countries till now (mind that this is even though he has visited several countries tons of times)!!!! What is his nationality?? Obviously, Australian!!!
• The tour made us realize how much we can learn while travelling. We quickly decided that we will travel (within & outside US) as much as possible from now on. Hope, we'll stick to that decision!!
• One of the Ozzie (slang for Australian) gang had a fart-maker and we had so much fun playing pranks with it throughout the tour!
• Pippa was a great practical joke-maker; while we were going to a restaurant, she suddenly screamed, "Look a bald eagle!!" and everyone looked in that direction. In the meanwhile she intentionally drove the bus into a steep down-hill road in the opposite direction and screamed as if we were falling off the cliff. You should only see the panic in all our faces to actually enjoy it.
• The other practical joke was a more elaborate one; We were supposed to go to Clava Cairns (prehistoric burial chambers) and came across a very narrow bridge. She said the weight-limit was very less and that the bridge would fall off if we all stayed in the bus. So, we got off and walked across the bridge while she drove. However, while coming back, she said "What the heck? We'll take a chance and drive across." and started driving with all of us in the bus. Everyone started screaming and yelling at the top of their voices only to realize a few seconds later, that it was another practical joke of hers!! As it turned out, the bridge was sturdy enough and there was no weight limit on it.