Tour

Today was an early start to get to the Dutch Palace before it got busy. Today we toured the old Kochi Town and hit a few of the highlights. The Palace was quite small but it contained some really interesting pieces. One of the most interesting was a couple of paintings in the style that the subject followed you as you moved across the room. It's such a cool technique.

We then moved on to a manual laundry facility. The workers belong to the lowest cast in the Indian society and thrm and their family have been doing that type of work for decades. It's really manual hard work. They scrub clothes and smack them against the rock to clean and after its the clothes are ironed with coal fueled irons. I tried the iron and it was super heavy.

We then went to St Francis Church and then to look at the Chinese nets fishing. The process is super environmentally friendly. News are lowered into the river then after some time they are raised quickly catching fish.

Along the boulevard fishermen are selling their fresh catch. If I had cooking facilities I would have bought some to cook. We finished the tour in a government approved cultural facility. A few of the group bought rugs and intricately embroidered duvet covers. I just stood chatting and getting to know my group a bit better.Läs mer