Help the fishermen!
by Willettsworld
First erected between 1350 and 1450, the cantilevered fishing nets indicate trade links with China. Known as Cheena vala they are fixed to the land with an outstretched net suspended over the sea and large stones suspended from ropes as counterweights at the other end. Each installation is operated by a team of up to six fishermen.
I got called over to one by 5 guys who were working on it and they showed me some of the small fish they had caught with names like toad fish and pen fish. I then helped them by pulling up the net which they say they do between 250 and 350 times a day!
Good Keralan Food
by PierreZA about Hotel Cochin Fort
I had a few meals at this restaurant. They serve South Indian food, and I had some very good food here. During my last visit (Oct 2008) they had a staff problem and service was poor, as was some of the food (ice cold rice).
You will see people drinkning "tea" from teapots and mugs - tat is actually how they serve there ice cold beer! Keralan Food
Fort Cochi and the fishing nets
by cadzand
You haven't seen Cochin, if you haven't seen Fort Cochin's famous and mysterious fishing nets.
Like totems from another age stranded in time, they perch along the backwaters.
Those Chinese fishing nets are the most efficient means of backwater fishing and Fort Cochin is full of them. Dexterous fishermen constantly rise and descend them.....
St. Francis Church
by MikeAtSea
The inside of St. Francis Church is very simple if one compares the church to similar buildings in Europe and one imagines what important explorer lay here buried for so many years. Work started on the church in the middle of the 16th century and both the Dutch and Portuguese used this church. Most tumbstones from those times have been removed and memorial plates can be seen on the outside of the church of the various dignitaries that served this community.
Spices, spices, spices
by PierreZA
The best way of visiting spice wharehouses and NOT SPICE SHOPS, is to specifically ask a tuk-tuk/taxi driver that you would like to visit such places. In the course of a few hours we visited places where ginger, tumeric, black pepper and other spices were processed. It is facinating what you find inside old delapidated buildings. Then there is the Pepper Exchange in Jew Town, which you may visit.
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Still too many when we returned
arbol de pan
Tea on the street
This is Assi
