India · HERITAGE WALKS IN KOCHI
Good heritage walks in Kochi fill up weeks ahead; the great ones go first. Below: the 4 to book early, what each includes and how they differ.
Walk through Fort Kochi and Mattancherry in 3 hours, seeing Chinese nets, churches, Dutch sites, and the Paradesi Synagogue with a local guide.
“Our guide John was very knowledgeable and very relaxed about timing and route. Best guided tour we did. Highly recommend. Thank you”
Walk Fort Cochin’s Indo-European past with a local storyteller, Portuguese and Dutch threads, coffee breaks, and sea views for $27.96.
“It was a thoroughly enjoyable and an incredible learning experience. Johann, the storyteller, was passionate, authentic (hailing from Fort Kochi) and clearly done a lot of research on this theme.”
Jewish Heritage Tour of Cochin covers key synagogues, a Jewish cemetery, Fort Cochin, Chinese fishing nets, plus door-to-door pickup.
“We had a fantastic experience. Our guide was extremely knowledgeable about the Cochin Jewish community, and Cochin in general.”
Guided heritage walk in Kochi with St. George Church, Mattancherry Palace, Jew Town, and Paradesi Synagogue, plus spice market. Small group.
“Tour guide was really nice and showed us around the jewish quarter, or the few remains of it… there is not much to see, as mostly it was demolished, but for a few remains - inscriptions and ‘Magen David’ on the houses. Also the synagogue with a small museum - amazing ~1000 AD declaration of the Maharaja, giving privileges to the jews. It is a pity you cannot get into the old graveyard, you can only look from above the fence… but of course this is not the guide fault. We also visited the studio of an artist who paints very beautiful pictures of the old jewish houses and synagogues…”
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