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Friday, February 28th, 2003
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12:10p - LAST STOP COCHIN(ERNAKULAM)!!
Well this being our last place to be visited in our trip....welcome to the city of Harbors...
the city contains of two more islands one is Wellington and the other is Vypeen island..all the three that is Ernakulam ,Vypeen and the Wellington have the main transport between them as ferries....getting from one island to another..in ferriy is altogether a new experience....u somehow get lost in the no. of people of diff custom and work getting into the ferry getting off it..and then running to diff directions..as if suddenly there be flood in an ant hill....so the ants running everywhere without knowing where they are heading......
Now we reached cochin in night so we again took a three-bed room ..now we all are used to sleeping together ..hehe..when we get up in the morning no one was at the place where he slept in the night...it was as if each one of us had swapped our places in the night but nobody knows when that thing happened......we all set for the FortCochi..the place where..there was an old church made by the dutch people....then we saw the shore......and then we set for a ferry ride to the Vypeen island..it was so much fun..to get into the sea-side village life...the island was so quite and serene.....travelling to such places give u time to think something other than this worldly thing something which doesn't belong tro this world......something which is in everyone...now im again drifting to this unknown world..get back,,..so we went for the Cheriyar beach on the islands southern most point....we were surprised to see the same foreigners on this island those whom we met during our cruise from Kullam to Allepey...we just shared a smile and went our ways..hehe...it was all so coincidental....now went to Wellington island again via a ferry..i kindda satretd to like these ferry rides...there was this large dockyard..that we went to see...for our surprise..there were two ships being docked..one was full with import cargo from (singapore)and the other full of export cargo (kenya)..now that was when i really saw what export and import is all about.....the ship was so huge..my God i measured it to be about 240 walking steps..this was huge.....so we had our brunch and then were back to visit the main Ernakulam by evening....the city is quite a developing one with neon-lights market..big showrooms..and quite a few funky eating -joints....but then everything went slow by about 9 o'clock in night..now what the hell this city had no night life....so we went for the multiplex..to watch a hindi movies called Tujhe Meri Kasam(actually we wanted just pass our tiome coz our train back to Calicut was at 1:30 a.m. ..the movie was really turned to be a time pass for it has no story and a very bad acting by the new actor...the actress looked cool and the character she played quite suited her....personality....so we were out from the cinema hall by 12 and into the train by 1:30 a.m. and into our berths sleeping like logs by 1:31 a.m. ..he he..we didn't even see where we were sleeping..just saw the berth no.threw our bags on the berth and slept......it was only in the morning...that somebody woke me up..and told me that the next station was Calicut...so my journey ended rather peacefully without any sufferings......actually it is said that when u go for a SAFAR u have to "SUFFER"..but it was not true in my case ..coz i enjoyed everybit of my SAFAR......So thats it guys hope u liked the whole tour..and will surely visit the GOD's OWN COUNTRY (Kerala) someday.....till next C U.
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