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Compleat Angler
Back in Fort Kochin we explored the town on foot and with the help of a rickshaw driver - with the inevitable consequence of some shopping opportunities that we generally managed to resist. Of particular note were: the Church of St Francis, the first western church in India (c 1500) and where Vasco de Gama was buried; the Dutch Palace, the …
Finishing up in Fort Cochin
So our India trip is now coming to an end after 1 month of traveling around we now only have 1 day left here in Delhi. We have spent our last 4 days in Fort Cochin - what a perfect ending to our India trip.
Fort Cochin is a beautiful small fishing village where they fish using the old traditional methods by using large nets which takes …
Finishing Up In Fort Cochin
We arrived in Fort Kochin yesterday from Munnar. Luckily we are no longer carrying Brent's Buddha, we managed to drop that off and get it forwarded home to NZ as it was dragging like an anchor in Brent's bag.
Fort Cochin is a beautiful small fishing village where they fish using the old traditional methods by using large nets which …
Back Waters
... no one will turn down a fare even when they don't know where they're going, they will drive around then ask for more money but not here - very strange!
The boat trip through the back waters was good. The morning we were in a large boat on the open waters, had lunch on the boat then transfered to canoes for the afternoon in the back waters. Saw local women making rope from coconut shells and many locals working on a government project protecting / improving the waterways. ...
The monsoon in Kochi
... address of where we were staying. We thought we were going to have to stay at the random hotel for the night, when a group of high spirited (a little bit drunk) Indian men, who were celebrating Onam, came to our rescue with a smart phone, enabling us to get the phone number that we needed! One of them dropped us there in his rickshaw (although he was driving on the wrong side of the road most of the ...
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