I'm a Celebrity - Get me out of Kochi!

We arrived at Ernaculum Town station in Kochi later than expected – it was already getting close to dusk. We didn’t know it, but we still had another 1 hour journey to take us to our guesthouse in Fort Kochi.

Outside the train station, there was a large queue and surprisingly orderly system for taking a rickshaw. Instead of picking one up from the street and haggling a price, you first go to a booth and pay 1 rupee to the cashier. After stating your destination, he gives you a ticket and a fixed price that you must pay to your rickshaw driver on arrival. The rickshaws are all queued up waiting for customers, just like taxis at an airport.

It was a long journey from the station to Fort Kochi since the driver had to take a long detour south to reach the bridges. There were two long stretches of river we needed to cross. After that we had the busy rush hour traffic to deal with before reaching Fort Kochi.

It can be cheaper (and quicker) to take a ferry followed by a shorter rickshaw ride, but after a long day travelling in a Sleeper Class coach, we really didn’t want the extra hassle.

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