Kochi/Fort Cochin

When we arrived in Kochi, the guesthouse we wanted to stay at was full, but the owner, not wanting to turn away paying guests, unhesitatingly gave us the key to his late mother's room instead. There weren't actually sheets on the beds but there was a whole closet full of sheets so we just took our pick. There were also about twenty chairs and tables, a corner full of photos of the owner's mother, and a huge shrine featuring a 3D image of Jesus shooting lasers from his fingertips.



It was one of the weirder places we've stayed. The next morning we asked to move into a more normal room, not so much because we didn't like the room but because we didn't like the size of the spider we discovered in the room full of boxes that separated the bedroom from the bathroom!

Kochi (or specifically Fort Cochin, the area of the city that we stayed in) is a peaceful little town on the Kerala coast with lots of pretty European architecture and some picturesque (but not particularly effective as far as we could tell) Chinese fishing nets, which it's famous for. (Picture by Paul)



Walking around the town it felt more like Europe than India at times. We stayed a couple of nights before going up into the hills to Munnar.