Doug's Travelogue

Elephant chained up at someone's home on the front yard!

The Tuk Tuk stopped and over this high cement wall peers the head of an elephant. Well the driver takes me through the gates of this home and they are burning leaves brush and the big mean looking thing is lurching and tossing it's trunk in the air. I take some pics and of course the owner comes over looking for rupee's. Why not!

Dutch Cemetery 1724

This very old resting place is right at the Sea's edge dating back to 1724.

Church of St. Francis

As today was Good Friday there was a church service going on in the place of worship, so I did not get to stroll through the large old building built in the 16th century. The Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama died in Kochi in 1524 and was buried in the cemetery, where you can see his gravestone, - although his remains were taken to rest in Lisbon in 1538.

Doug's first Ride in India, It's a Tuk Tuk Taxi

I meet my driver who did not understand a word of English, and off we go to the first ATM machine I find. 44 rupee to the dollar. This 3 wheel auto is completely air conditioned with only a front windshield and a side door with a chain to keep you in it. Its seats two pax and off you go. Forget the white line on the road as there is not one. Just beep your horn, and steer where ever you want. I have him for 6 hours and the cost was 1500 rupee or $35. We headed off to the area known as Fort Kochi.