Hotel Excellency
Check rates and availability for this hotel
Find the best prices for Hotel Excellency from our 6 partners. Show all partners
Travel Blogs from Kochi
Kerala - Kochi & Allapuzha
Eventually arrived in Kochi late at night after a 13 hour train down from Margao, Goa. We weren't expecting much from a 3rd class indian train but the train was actually very good, we had two seats that folded up into bunk beds with pillows, fresh linen etc. so we just lay down for most of the journey, dave had a kip, i had a look at the …
Down south
... Fort Cochin is where Vasco da Gama died and his remains were buried in St.Francis' church until the remains were taken to Portugal after 14 years and reburied with suitable honours in San Jeronimo in Lisbon.
On the way back to the fish market we came across the film crew that we had seen yesterday. We hung around for a while and I had a coconut milk. Then off to buy our lunch. We opted for one giant prawn each and 2 striped prawns each. ...
Our last stop in India...
28th Sept – Moving upwards through Kerala
We were all woken at 6 by the house across the moat having unbelievably loud music on. After just about getting back to sleep, we were up at 8 for breakfast...which annoyingly didn't actually come until about 9. But we got an extra hour on the boat and got back at 10 to move on upwards to Fort Cochi. We all got onto a bus to Ernakulam, surprisingly spacious and quick which was ...
Nelephants
... Coffee and met up with the couple to go meet the taxi man. The couple we went with were lovely enough between 50 & 60, Margaret and Frank from London, as we all introduced ourselves and squished into this taxi of course Ian blurted out 'Age before Beauty' for dibs on the front seat and Frank was bigger than us so made sense.
Well the Elephants were a good Hour and a half away so on the way there we were all chatting 'Frank' seemed nice enough abit hippyish but ...
And now for something completely different....!!!
... And it is done by two men, one of them costumed as a female! Didn't really understand a lot of it, but it was colourful! We then walked home past all the vendors - "Hullo - hullo" - "good price" - "let me show you my crafts"...and made it home exhausted after a long day's travel!
A highlight of the day was ...