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Travel Blogs from Cochin, India
Cruising, Cochin, and Kathakali
This is a top pick! ... but today is a large city spread out over a number of islands. We stayed in the historic Portuguese-influenced part called Fort Cochin. One of the legacies of the Portuguese is their architectural influence and that Kerala has one of the highest Christian ...
May the guru have your email address please?
This is a top pick! ... land... After spending a wonderful week in Varkala I decided it was time to tear myself away and head up the coast towards Cochin. 3 weeks in India is simply not enough and there was no point in me trying to rush through seeing as much as possible in ...
Cochin
This is a top pick! The bus ride to Kochi was a seven hour nightmare and we have decided that any journey which takes longer than 4 hours will be done by train from now on. We go straight to the fort side and stay at a small guest house called Wilson's. It would have ...
Kali, incense, and major construction!
This is a top pick! ... didn't arrive so I arranged a pre-paid taxi and set off for what turned out to be about an hour drive to Fort Cochin from the airport....incessant honking, near collisions with rickshaws, bikers, mopeds and the like all the way. Finally I put on my ...
Postal Service Tailors...
This is a top pick! ... . Now, you wouldn't think this seemingly simple task would require much however, you haven't ever tried to do it in India! As I mentioned in an earlier blog entry, there is a theft problem here apparently, so all packages have to be sewn up in ...
Here comes a VACATION!!!!!!
This is a top pick! ... In fact, I think it was my first REAL vacation - and the place couldn't have been more perfect. We strolled through Fort Cochin, which was delightful. We all would have loved to have more time for shopping and sight seeing. But the beach was ...
Kerala - Kochi - 6 nights
This is a top pick! ... the mountains and had to stop. His original plan was to cycle to Nepal, but now he's sent his bike home and is backpacking around India. What a great experience that must have been! Day 17 - 10/03/08 Quite an eventful day today, but not really in a ...
Kochi Nights..
This is a top pick! Greetings this time from Kochi(also known as Cochin). Kochi is one of those places in India that's a 'must see' according to most people you meet along the way. With it's Arabic, British, Chinese, Dutch, Italians and Portuguese influences you can ...
dancing cooking and peace
This is a top pick! We arrived in the busy town of Kochin and took an expensive ferry (3p a ticket) out to the island town of Fort Cochin (no fort) where accommodation is all about the 'homestays'. We stayed in the Princess Inn (no Princess) run by two ...
May Day, Kathakali, and Keralan Murals
This is a top pick! May Day meant that many of the stores were closed in Fort Cochin, Kerala, a democratic state in India with an elected communist government. As one of the "seams of the seasons," May Day was marked by street rallies and relaxing workers. On this day, I ...
Fishing Nets, expensive shirts and books....
This is a top pick! ... bite of non-Indian food and drink...except of course the ubiquitous masala chai. Almost as important it seems in India as petrol. Served up at any particular time especially when some type of sales transaction is going to take place...of ...
Kochi/Cochin - Kerala Region
This is a top pick! ... honest?! But eventually we had to get back into the real world...the Goan beaches are beautiful, but its not the "Real" India...everything there is for tourists, and the minute we drove out of Palolem to Canacona train station the change was ...
Did You Not See That Elephant?
This is a top pick! ... parts. Strict Kerulen law on alcohol means pretty much all restaurants are unlicensed. Bad news for thirsty cyclists. A late night session on the blog finally getting photos and videos from India online really finished us off. Bed ...
A weekend in God's Country
This is a top pick! ... house but never did I think I would be having a woman rub me down with herbal powder in the middle of the backwaters of India. It even came with a complimentary toweling off. I only laughed harder when a couple I ran into later that night did the same ...
Hectic India
This is a top pick! ... living purely from coconuts. We were also given our first yoga lesson by a hippie couple from Australia who were really nice. Unfortunately, Cochin has become a bit boring now so it's time to move on further north to Gokarna, just south of Goa. We are ...
Grape city
This is a top pick! Arriving in Ernakulam, the modern business orientated part of Cochin, i had a nightmare finding a room due to a local festival and had to settle for one opposite the bus station after 3hrs of searching. Then took an unnecessary thali and went on a further ...
Finally found what we were looking for!
This is a top pick! ... catch baby reef sharks and hammerhead sharks, proudly displaying them alongside all the usual prawns, squid, bream etc etc. Fort Cochin proved to be an excellent place to end our Indian adventure: It was relaxed and touristy enough for us to ...
Chilling in Cochin / Kochi
... butter and lemon juice 3. driving on the truck for 8 hours on christmas day - wahhhhh!!!! im in a teeny tiny internet place in cochin trying to remember which pics ive put up and which ones ive not. think i have it sorted. well after i ...
Back to the muggy coast
... . We started the day by hiring a moped and riding about. We found easily the 'Chinese fishing nets' we'd read about. Fort Cochin is a peninsula and a prominent fishing location on and off shore. These nets, as the name suggests, are a Chinese invention ...
last day in Cochin
Last day in Cochin today, walked down to the Jew town area, or that is what we started to do... as we got out of the hotel a tuk tuk driver asked us if we wanted a ride somewhere, as usual we said no thanks. He went on to ask if we could do him a favour ...
Hot day in Cochin, India
Today we were in Cochin, India which is located in the southwest part of the country. Wow...that's all I can say. India...it's just as you figured it would be. Crowded, noisy, smelly, dirty, and HOT. It was around 100 ...
Yoga, symbols and chinese fishing nets
The past 3 days we have been in Cochin and it's been fun!!!! At the Secret garden there is a pool and I did 150 lengths and was very tired after it! There is a great swing in the backyard where mum did a yoga class and Scarlett and I were pushed ...
Harbour at Ft. Cochin - Part 1
Mar. 31/11 (Part 1)This was my last full day in Cochin. So to beat the heat I decided to take a harbour cruise. Here follows some snippits, The boat was called the Bay Watch. Its sister ship: Sea Queen. It was run by a young man ...
Cochin (Kochi)
All grown up, the Little Owl went on the exploration of Cochin all on her own. What a brave little owl! She met a wonderful driver of auto-rickshaw, and his English speaking cousin as well. Not much space in the auto-rickshaw though... And the driving was ...
Katherines First Synagogue
... it relates to cranes!). There are container ships and cranes and all the other ugly trappings which accompany a fort town but happily Cochin has preserved its heritage intact in Fort Cochi. We (Vilhof whom I had met on the train and I) arrived at ...
Kerala
... having a traumatic naked massage (never again!), attempting to do some shopping (although Sunday means day of rest in Cochin), seeing a traditional Kathakali performance, and eating in some fantastic local haunts we decided that we need to keep moving, ...
Jungles, watersnakes and... Jewtown?
... days without drinking alcohol and a non-stop day of bus journies, Ellie and I arrived into Kerala, in a place called Fort Cochin. By complete coincidence when we walked into our first hostel we bumped into another couple who we had previously met in ...
Cochin
... ; And that was only the beginning of the hospitality. Our afternoon was spent on a city tour and boat ride. Cochin is India in microcosm: trash and plastic in piles everywhere, awful looking water in gutters, and fisherman using net ...