![]() Finally the instructor agrees to come with me. But everybody is still happy watching me being the lamb to slaughter. He tries his bit coaxing my friends to join me in the ‘fun’. That’s when the instructor (He seemed Australian) comes forward and asks me whether I would like to try it? I shrug my shoulder and say I don’t have a partner. I wait for a partner, but everybody is paired up. Nobody wants to try it themselves, but everybody wants me to try it!! They flash their camera phones and encourage me, by promising to take a video of my launch. ![]() Damn!! My initial excitement fizzles out. And you become the projectile to be launched by it. Its quite huge, around 15 storeys high at its highest point. Going by its name it is exactly what it is called- a giant sling shot pointed to heaven. ![]() I enquire and come to know its called as ‘The Sling Shot’. Then repeating the sequence till it slows down in mid air. It’s a glimmering ball and it’s shooting up high into the sky. That’s when I see something shining up in the sky. The people on the streets, the revelry in the air, and the thumping bass beats coming out of every disco and pubs lining the streets. Its tourist season and people from all over the world and Europe in particular have reached here. It’s supposed to be the place where the day begins at midnight. This time I am in Cyprus at a place called Ayia Napa.
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