Spanish tourist Manuel Rodriguez had planned to spend a week at Bokotial but stayed for 7 months due to the lockdown
Spaniard Manuel Arribas Rodriguez had intended to stay a week at Bokotial when he pedalled into the Assamese village on Valentine’s Day earlier this year.
He ended up spending more than seven months at the village in eastern Assam’s Sivasagar district thanks to the series of pandemic-induced lockdowns.
And on September 22, almost everyone from Bokotial turned up at Simaluguri, the nearest railway station, to bid an emotional farewell to Mr. Rodriguez who boarded the Rajdhani Express to New Delhi. He is scheduled to fly out to Madrid on Friday.
“It was heartbreaking to let Manuel bopai (son) go. But I feel happy for his parents who will get to see their biological son after so many months,” said Dipeswar Chutia, the headman of the village of 10 Assamese…