Our First Day in India - Visiting Broadway Market in Kochi, Kerala 🇮🇳

India. It's been on my bucket list for quite some time but the fear of the unknown kept me from visiting this country. 2023 is for me stepping out of my comfort zone and embracing the unknown and this is why for today's video I'm not in Indonesia I am in India. Yesterday night we arrived here it was a very long journey all the way from Danpasar in Bali to Kochi Kerala where we are right now. I am as always with Vishnu who is right here in front of me and then we have Janine as well. Good morning guys! We actually had a really good night of sleep because we arrived super late we were really really tired and today I'm gonna bring you guys along because it is all new for me. We are right now exploring on the streets here in Kochi and it's gonna be one big of an adventure. I'm super super excited for it and here we go! So as you guys can hear there's lots of beeping already going on and it is really really good weather. The sun is out it is beautiful there are lots of people on the streets here and right now the first thing that we need to do is find an ATM because we didn't have time for that yesterday. We were too busy arranging our airport pickup getting internet and everything and right now the first thing that we need to do is get cash because that is how we can pay everything here. So here you can see that we're walking on the street we have Janine as our tour guide here today. She knows apparently the way to the ATM. We have beautiful so many restaurants here as well I didn't really expect that. A bakery for my birthday! Oh yeah it's Janine's birthday today or how Janine likes to say it birthday. Okay so we definitely need to celebrate her birthday and here look at this beautiful building I literally had no idea look how stunning this is. Reminds me a little bit of Europe. The boat Chatti Banglo. So guys as you can see here you have a old building super big and you have all the sellers here they are selling so many things. Here you have bags and hats as well it is stunning and then you have here the local tuk-tuks I think you call it which is definitely interesting to see and here is again a really beautiful normal shop. All right guys we found the ATM I'm really curious how this is gonna go. So the ATM looks like this huge building wow look at this that's insane. I wonder if there are people inside there all the time but let's withdraw our first cash here in India hopefully it goes well. Here we go so this is the ATM let's see if this is gonna work. Pin change fast cash withdrawal current yay oh my god guys the cash we have here and I'm gonna get my card immediately as well. Okay so guys this is how the money looks like and I got five thousand I still don't know how much it is but I think I can get around for today maybe a few days even this is how one note of 500 looks like. Pretty interesting if you ask me super beautiful also. First mission of the day is succeeded we have cash we have internet which is also really important I got a sim card at the airport and we are paying 14 euros for a whole month and we have two gigabytes per day so I think that's more than enough and right now I put the navigation on to broadway market which I heard is apparently really nice market with lots of things that they're selling so it is about 900 meters of walking we're just gonna see what is going on there because I have no idea but you guys now already get an idea of how loud the streets here in Kochi are it is insane there's so much beefing going on we're getting a lot of looks from everyone but still the vibes are really really high and it is stunning we're really lucky that we have such good weather today as well guys look at this we even have a church here I actually would not expect it but we have a huge church here in the back it's actually beautiful it's called Emmanuel Cathedral if you pronounce correctly there you see it so huge so stunning and I feel like now we are entering a more crowded area even more crowded I hope you guys can still hear me well but it currently looks like this and there is a lot of things going on but I feel like this is a street where they have no cars so that would be really nice but Janine what's your first impression it's actually really clean and it's not so chaotic as I expected yeah true yeah I have the same oh I love this this is really cute hello hello good morning how are you good and you all the spices here we have all the spices and the smell guys I wish you could even smell it because it's literally like a curry yeah it's overwhelming it's so nice it's okay here we have the masala cashew nuts amazing we got some cashew nuts here a lot a lot your face but they're really good thanks it's from India from Kerala wow try it yeah they're actually really good wow wow yeah thank you so we just had a few cashew nuts to try and they were actually really nice but I don't want to carry a bag full of nuts the whole day because we are still on our way to Broadway market but like I said before there's so much going on you can see all these shops here in the back there are food stalls everywhere here as well and it is just beautiful to see there are so many sellers and we're not even at the market yet here you can see that there are sellers and stores everywhere you have bags and I actually need a new bag so that is going to be my mission of today to find a new handbag at Broadway market but first we even need to get there because it is there's so much to see and to explore and we're not moving very fast to be honest let's see if we are already at the Broadway market I have no idea oh we should be here it's like one street and then the market starts we're really close guys it looks really cool there are sellers everywhere as you can see here here are all small things where you can go in lots of stores and hopefully some clothes or bags that we like hello but there's a certain smell like the air is pretty dense here no yeah yeah it's very humid though I have to say I like to say lots of sellers here everywhere and we have Vishnu still recording on the other side as you can see there are stores everywhere here it's pretty crowded but here as you can see there are earrings everywhere there's so much going on so much to buy lots of masks luckily we don't need that anymore hello hello hello good morning good morning Janine look guys it's her birthday right it's Janine's birthday still here we have these hats I think you should wear one for the rest of the day can I try how much are these 15 50 50 I don't know I think you should wear one what do you think it's her birthday I mean today is my birthday yeah maybe later on in the beginning in the beginning yeah maybe later then I do like this the bottles right so you see what they are selling so we have things like this to rub your feet that's interesting and you ask how much it is yeah this is actually nice because it keeps your drink cool as well I want to say permissive I'm so no permissive how much is this one wrong shop different shop it's all so smaller that we're confused which shop has which product that's 200 100 is 130 something so two euros something that's really good 30k 30k yeah wishing you things in idr I think in euros yeah why not if you want it then at least you have a it is so hot it's time for a juice as you can see how much the sun is out already it's insanely busy here we see ojin restaurant the taste of malamba and we see all of these fresh fruits here so it's time to order a fruit juice because we are really thirsty and I need some fruits for sure let's see is it mango mango yeah and how much is one juice answer me one pineapple juice one pineapple juice yeah one pineapple juice no here we take it yeah so I ordered some pineapple juice because I'm really in the mood and the other two guys have mango juice really curious how it's gonna taste but luckily there's a fan here we're sitting really nice I have a z with this as a birthday girl and behind there there are a lot of shops still this street has so many things going on here so it juices very very well looks really nice time to give this bad boy a taste that pineapple one I'm the only one who ordered pineapple so hopefully it's good oh wow this is so amazing it literally tastes like candy almost but there's no added sugar in it so it's really good but this is one of the best fruit juices I've had you have to taste this one it's literally amazing wow oh my god oh my god I love the flavor and they say that there's no sugar inside no sugar I'm gonna move here literally the fruit juice and then the mango looks like this it's amazing what do you think it is pure juice pure juice right what we have at home is mostly like sugar and stuff exactly exactly so this is so there's literally no added sugar in here you really taste it wow the quality of the fruit there's so much flavor in this one 10 out of 10 for this food juice this is a 60 cent food juice that we have here and you see how huge it is and how amazing it is absolutely love it so we had our juice it's time to go on the road again because we still haven't made it officially to broadway market but here look at the snacks that they are having it is time to try these out soon you can see how many things there are here and those are the fruits that we just had so many people looking hello we have someone singing here we have all the fruits here all the food stands which hello and it looks amazing I see apples here I think mango again even grapes wow this is really nice all the food stands and then there oh my god this is amazing do you want to have yes I don't know which are mango because the mangoes here look different no you don't have mango oh those are grapes no that's a lot of grapes let's see if they're good that's important oh they are really nice yeah yeah they're good they're fresh lots of flavor four kilo kilo but I don't think we need a kilo we can have half kilo 500 grams 500 gram yeah okay for 50 rupees yeah okay yeah so that is 60 cents for 500 gram of these 500 gram do you have 50 rupees small because I only have a thousand I think I have 50 rupees yeah okay so the view here actually is also really nice here you have the river which is really thank you so much thank you okay we have grapes which we can't eat right now but literally I need to get used to how busy it's okay thank you well we have grapes which I'm really happy about look at all the bananas here oh it's so good lots of bananas and I'm just gonna keep you guys sticking along on this really busy street because I feel like it's going from busy to less busy so many different types of people here all the time lots of people looking yeah I think so it's still straight we still haven't made it officially so actually the place where we just bought the grapes was broadway market and before that was broadway market as well so without knowing it we actually were there all this time already but it kind of makes sense because there was so much going on like I said all the time it was really crowded and busy and this is the entrance of broadway market with all the food stalls where we just were so we're walking back now a little bit but this is the entrance of broadway market and then here you have all the clothes all the bags everything going on and there's just so much that you can buy we didn't buy too much we bought some fruits but we have to be careful with eating because I got advice that you can't eat it if you haven't washed your fruits so we definitely need to make sure to be careful with that because we don't want to get sick on our first day here oh mango look how different mango here looks like guys it's way smaller though way smaller than in indonesia yeah super small whoa they just flew an eagle here over the market that's so cool but everywhere and lots of honking we're now crossing the river actually and the people are really nice there are so many friendly locals which I didn't expect it actually but it's beautiful it's insane to see we just bought food so we don't need food look at this street with all the bananas we're gonna go here yeah beautiful we're gonna go in this street so many bananas go on and look at all the different shapes and sizes of these bananas and the color I've never seen these and these are also different this is really interesting so many different sizes yeah different bananas where is this one from it's it's really weird but I've never seen a banana like this before hello this is beautiful here like I said that we were crossing the river here you can see it it has a really interesting color I wouldn't jump in this water to be honest but there you see the bridge that we just crossed and we walked all the way over there and now here in this street with all the bananas and it's really nice because we have now this over our head so it's not too hot right guys hello how are you good have a good day uh the Netherlands bye wow they're so nice here I can't believe it hello so we finally arrived at a quiet part this market was insane it is right now time to find some shelter because I am so hot there are way more videos coming right now but for now I'm gonna end this video right here I want to say thank you so much for watching I really hoped you enjoyed this first episode of this whole Indian travel series there's so much more to come so please do not forget to like and subscribe as always I will see you in my next one