After a fairly uneventful train journey, we arrived in Cochin and learning from our previous mistakes we immediately booked tickets for our next leg of the journey in a few days time. Cochin is made up of several islands and peninsulas connected by a local ferry system. We decided to walk the 1.4 mile to the ferry jetty but soon found that in the midday heat with our packs on, the distance feels like it effectively tripled. We bought our tickets to fort Cochin, the more historic part of the city, for 2.5 rupees each (about 3.5 pence), not bad for a 20 minute ferry ride. Fort Cochin is the historic district whose architecture is based on British, Portuguese and Dutch influences and was used as a port of the shipping of spice abroad. The docks
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