Cochin (Kochi), India - Part 1

Cochin, India
April 15, 2018


We docked in Cochin, India at 7am and I was still sleeping. When I woke up I got to talk to my best friend on the other side of the world! Then for brekky I had an omelette with mushrooms and onions. After I had breakfast we headed off the Mariner of the Seas.




When we first walked off the ship I saw 5 or 6 pallets of fruit that they were bringing on to the ship to have for breakfast or in smoothies or something.






Then we started walking to the ferry boat. On the way there were a lot of tuk-tuk drivers desperately trying to get us to come in to the tuk-tuk and take a 3 hour tour.




Then we got to the ferry boat (by walking not tuk-tuk) and got on.




 I looked around the boat and there was not a single white person in the boat (besides my Mom and Dad). There may have been some Indian tourists coming from a different state in India but we definitely stuck out.

Anyway, we got on and there was a guy who was coming around the boat with what looked like a credit card machine, my Mom and Dad looked like they were going to do Snoopy's happy dance, why? My Mom and Dad did not exchange any US dollars for Rupees so they thought that they could just stick there credit card in there and everything would be hunky dunky. Then tragedy struck - the credit card machine was not a credit card machine it was just to print out receipts. When it came around for us to pay we tried to give him 2 dollars but he said that he would only take Rupees, my Dad took out his phone as fast as he could to see what the exchange rate was from Rupees to the US Dollar. 1 US Dollar is 65 Rupees. That means that we gave him 130 Rupees, when the cost of talking a ferry was just 12 Rupees. That means that it was 0.18 cents for the 3 of us to take a ferry. Since the guy was still insisting that we needed to pay in Rupees, w we got of the ferry as fast as we could to find an ATM and get back to the boat before it left again in 15 minutes. We found a shop that did exchange US dollars into Rupees. We walked back to the ferry boat as fast as we could (trying to arrive before the boat left) but we were late by 2 minutes. Then we walked back past the money exchange place to get to the spice markets. The spice markets and almost everything after that will be in Cochin, India Part 2.