Sunday, January 31, 2010

The Streets of Fort Kochi...

Friday, 22nd January 2010

The group had arranged a shopping tour of Kerala on Friday morning, to be followed by a lunch hosted by the local tour company who went out of its way to give us the best of Keralan hospitality!
Shopping is not pakdokter's forte, so pakdokter gave it a miss and decided to do a walking tour of Fort Kochi. Fort Kochi is small enough a town and with a walking tour-guide-pamphlet produced by the Malabar House, pakdokter set out to explore the town and immortalise some of the scenes with pakdokter's little compact Canon Ixus.

a stern-side view of the Malabar House...
the upper level housed the Ayurvedic Spa and the Divine Wine Lounge..


a lovely modern bungalow...



a seafood restaurant...




St Johns de Britto's High School...


the Fort Kochi Post Office.....

Vasco da Gama's house..
it is now a guest-house....




the main shopping street of Fort Kochi...


jewellery, kurta, pashminas....??




many of the old shophouses have been refurbished
and turned into homestays....



another pretty homestay guesthouse...




slightly modern..


this homestay is next to the Malabar House...



many Syrian Christian churches....


St Mary's Girls School..
the 3-wheeler bajaj is a common school taxi..



a quaint tea-house..
it was full-house when pakdokter wanted to stop for tea....

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