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Travel Blogs from Fort Cochin, India
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This is a top pick! ... hanging out ever since, we've shared a few pots of 'special tea', seen a Katakali performance and just generally had a laugh. Fort Cochin is such a quaint place, much nicer than I expected. Along the shore are the incredible Chinese fishing nets, you walk ...
dancing cooking and peace
This is a top pick! ... backpackers who drifted in and out during our four days stay. Sorry, no more brackets now. Being separated from the mainland Fort Cochin is nice and quite, more goats than rickshaws, quaint cobbled streets and arty cafes that do cake for breakfast. ...
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 ...
Finally found what we were looking for!
This is a top pick! ... Indians 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 ...
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 ...
Katherines First Synagogue
... think 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) ...
Jungles, watersnakes and... Jewtown?
... , 10 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 ...
Fisher Folk of Fort Cochin
... of Ernakulam and then to finally get to Cochi island and see the slow paced life and beautiful Portuguese influenced streets of Fort Cochin. Our hotel was okay but rather expensive but luckily there were plenty of cafes to relax in and read our books ...
Blessed be thy clean bedsheets
Arriving into fort Cochin was something of a relief, after 36 hours of travel sustained by one pleasing samosa, a whisper of rest and Bon Iver on my iPod (which, of course, is no bad thing). Humidity hit me slap between the brow - and armpits, knees and ...
Fort Cochin
... one of the only states which have public dustbins on the streets. The driving however is still terrible, especially on the local buses. Fort Cochin is a fairly small town, which a fair amount of travelers go to, it's nice as you can walk easily around ...
Dias de relax y picazon...
... hemos estado, ademas de haber estado muy ocupadas con las reservas de trenes y planes para nuestro futuro norte... Para llegar a Fort Cochin tomamos un bus desde Ooty ( 3 hs y media bajando nuevamente en interminable zigzag) combinado con un tren hasta ...
No more traditional dances
... the Dutch, Portuguese and British give it a very European feel. It is more like a fishing town in Portugal or Spain than India. Also, Catholicism is everywhere. We really liked it and again another place in India that is unlike anywhere else. It is most ...
Change of Scenery
... the beach for about an hour and by the time i got back the others were ready to leave, so Kim and myself headed back to Fort Cochin and Gloria and Mel headed into Ernakulam to do some shopping. We had all arranged to meet at 6 to go see the traditional ...
First time on Indian trains
... well, the cheeky little bugger ran out and sat on the seat next to me, perhaps we were in his seat. Finally got to Cochin after a second ride in an Austin Ambassador , this driver was a bit less crazy. The homestay Rossitta wood Castle is quite nice, ...
Kerala
... relaxing with Kimmy and Jo in Goa, but it was time to strap the backpack on and hit the trail again. I headed farther south to Fort Cochin. The first day there I did a walking tour of the city. I saw Santa Cruz Basilica and St Francis Church. Several ...
This heat is sucking the life out of us
... doesn't recognise the program I use to write with so it can't open my documents, therefore you have nothing to read, and I'm not retyping it!!! I haven't even tried to download the photos yet.... Sorry about this, this is after all INDIA. ...
Catching Kerala Character in Kochin
... which he said; 'off course you can, you are white'. Ok, Auch. I wanted to tell him that traveling as a whitey in India wasn't always easy, but that probably doesn't compare to his problems, so I kept it to my selves. The accommodation that Alexander had ...
holidays are FUN!
... put some pictures up too, gotta make the most of kirsty's camera as she's leaving in less than a week now! we travelled down to cochin two nights ago now, and its a really nice place, an island town just off the coast of kerala, with a really lovely laid ...
Fort Cochin
Fort Kochi Feb. 13-22, 2009 I am overwhelmed by the kindness we have been shown. We have been here in Fort Kochi, Kerala, south-west coast of India for two days and already have been adopted by Miss June, the owner and teacher who runs our home stay. ...
A fort not-so-feminine
... colonial town, filled with crumbling Euro architecture and juxtaposed Indian industrial prowess. At the risk of sounding cliched, Cochin is a remarkable blend of pasts meets present, where ancient Chinese fishing nets are used to haul a nightly catch ...
Is there such a thing as too much seafood?
... show us what home cooked Keralan food is like - it's delicious, and you even get used to sardine curry for breakfast! Fort Cochin is a terrific place to wnader around. It's virtually an island so there's much less traffic and the pace ...
Cochin
... inflated prices the swolen dead cats and rubbish that were pulled out each time the nets were raised were enough to keep us sticking to vegetables. Cochin was great but worth leaving the beaten track, after three days we had definatly seen ...
Fort Cochin - Fishy fun
... leave behind. For the past few days we have been exploring the peninsula by foot and bike, along with the neighboring island. Fort Cochin has everything a traveler needs and our stay here has been very comfortable indeed. In the evenings, we have slipped ...
Sealed with a kiss?
... about my re-entry into the 'real world' but as soon as I arrived in Kerala, it felt like a different country altogether. Fort Cochin is a sweet little town where I found families out walking along the beach front with their children to ...
On the Malabar coast
... ?! Sure, they were probably just some petty thiefs, but still, things like these are what we like about India - it never stops to surprise us ;-))). Fort Cochin is a harbor town with a long history of adventurers (the Dutch, the Portuguese and the British ...
Becca's Saree
Our day after the backwaters trip would now be filled with picking up Becca's saree and getting to Fort Kochi. She bought an orange and purple saree and had left the choli (the top) to be sewed by a local tailor. When she tried the choli on, it was a ...
Drowned. Almost.
We stopped at a tea factory after leaving the sanctuary en route to the city of Cochin. A Victorian cotton mill couldn't have created as much noise. Interesting as it was to learn about the crushing and drying process, I left disappointed not to be ...
The Chinese Fishing Net place.
... this time they were not... Yes the Chinese fishing nets are kind of neat, and different. But that's all there is to Fort Cochin. I also attended a Kathakali performance, which is a very distinctive and quite famous form of art in this area. That was ...
Backwater communists
... . He was nice enough to share the cost of a shiny white Ambassador taxi (the first kind of car in India, he exclaimed) to Fort Cochin without making any overt attempts to sell us tourist-related products. Chock one up for the Cochinites. After trudging ...