~~A ride in Staten Island Ferry~~

Visiting statue of liberty from NYC will take more than the time taken to go up the empire state building,even after waiting for quite a long time one wouldn't get access into the monument as we have to see it from 100 meter distance.If at all we need to go inside the monument we have to book 3 months in advance.




So when Raj told me needs to visit that place I had other plans as I wasn't willing to waste my time there.New York city offers a free ferry ride between Manhattan and Staten Island once in 30 minutes.The ferry passes via the statue of liberty on its way to Staten island.So one can watch the Statue of liberty,Skyline of Manhattan,Brooklyn bridge and experience a wonderful ride in Hudson river for free of cost.It takes almost 30 minutes to reach the island and one can spend sometime in the island or return in the same boat as we did.





To say about the ferry more than 1000 people can travel in it at a time so one needn't wait for the next ferry since there is always a place.Since the boat was crowded we were reminded of the times back in Kochi were we used to take similar ferries to Fort Kochi but only difference it costed us Rs3 there and its free in NYC.