India · WALKING TOURS IN KOCHI
Good walking tours in Kochi fill up weeks ahead; the great ones go first. Below: the 6 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”
Kochi’s local street-food walk packs six-plus tastings, sweet-making stops, and clay-pot chai into a 2-hour guided stroll.
“Our guide for our kochi tour was Satish, who had truly excellent knowledge and was super friendly and informative. His food and drink spots had clearly been well vetted, and he had a good relationship with all of the various shop staff. We would have happily continued touring with him all day! A fantastic experience and would 100% recommend for anyone who wants not only a safe and tasty food tour but a really great grounding in local history and culture. We did the Fort kochi Heritage Tour and Jewish culture tour with food and drinks, would tell anyone visiting kochi to contact Satish!”
2-hour Alleppey food walk in Alappuzha with a small English and Hindi guide. Sample Kerala snacks, sweets, filter coffee, dessert.
“Sibi was a great guide, easy to speak with and gad a lot of insights of the city and if course the food! We tried many new foods and places that we normally wouldn't have found or even thought to search. Fantastic to have a local person guiding us to feel like we knew the city better!”
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…”
Walk Fort Kochi and Mattanchery in 3 hours, from working Chinese fishing nets and Portuguese churches to Paradesi Synagogue and palace murals.
“The tour was wonderful and enriching! Our guide Rajesh was very knowledgeable and explained all aspects of the tour with great enthusiasm and eloquence. Starting from Fort Kochi’s Chinese fishing nets, walking through the many streets of the old town, we got to learn and understand so much. It felt wonderful to soak in so much history and culture of this town. After a rickshaw ride to Jew Town, we learnt so much more about the rich Jewish history of Kochi. I will recommend this tour to anyone who is interested to learn more about the wonderful history and culture of Fort Kochi.”
Walk Kochi's Jewish quarter in 2 hours, from Koonan Kurish Church to Paradesi Synagogue, plus markets and stories for $14.
“I had an amazing experience with Satish who guided the Jewish quarter of Kochi, he is full of knowledge and goes the extra mile to make sure everyone sees what they are interested in. He made my stay in Kochi be full of meaning and history and I highly recommend him!!!”
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