Day 9 - You can never have too much culture, but you can have too much heat

Bit of a late start today as we were waiting for travel agents to open to try & change our ridiculous flight booking for the following day. We had an hours flight up the coast - the equivalent of Melbourne - Sydney. However things don't work like that in India, way too straight forward! Instead they decided we needed a 5am start & they would take us to Adelaide (Bangalore) & make us wait for 6 hours for the connecting flight to Sydney (Goa) - great sense of humour theses Indian airlines! However the price to change flights was financially crazy so we were stuck.

We headed out to potter around Cochin. As we'd seen most of the area yesterday, we decided to catch the ferry to the unispiring Ernakulam, only to walk around the block, try to visit the gardens only to find they don't open until 3pm, decide Cochin was better, and get on the next ferry back.

In the evening we attended a Culture Show, that was kind of interesting with some of the huge costumes & characters. It could ideally could have been an half an hour shorter, but it was interesting, energetic and colourful, and overall was worth doing.