Kerala, Part 4: Kochi and Kannur

Back to the Kerala coastline for two nights, then back up into the Western Ghats.

Back on the coast, in Kochi, we stayed one night in the peninsula of Fort Cochin [location].  The highlight there was a visit to the harbor front, where we stopped to help some fishermen work the famous “Chinese” fishing nets – an ancient technology introduced to the area by Chinese fishing fleets hundreds of years ago and still in use today [location]. Read on and check out the photos from Kochi and photos from Kannur.

In Kochi, Andy, Pam, Mara, and John help raise the Chinese fishing nets in Kochi. At rear is our driver, Ashok.
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Kerala, Part 1: the coast

A few days on the famous Malabar coast.

I’m stepping back to December.  All our January travel kept me from sorting the 2,500 photos I took on our travels through Kerala and Dharamsala in December.  Read on about the First stop: Kerala (December 12-20).

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