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Events

Every evening about 6pmSunset over the waterThe sun sets into the Arabian Sea off Fort Kochi Beach, behind the Chinese fishing nets. Walk the seafront path while the fishermen raise and lower the nets, then eat at the stalls along the walkway that cook the day’s catch.Photo: Rangan Datta, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Every Friday 6.30pmFriday HarmonyEvery Friday at 6.30pm, anyone can climb the stairs to the Mehboob Memorial Orchestra’s office near Aspinwall Junction to sing or listen. Singers of every age take turns at karaoke in Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil, in memory of Bayi Mehboob, Kochi’s own ghazal singer.

Walks

Walking time at an easy pace, not counting stops.

Drawn from OpenStreetMap, by its contributors.

Drawn from OpenStreetMap, by its contributors.

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Every place on this site, drawn on one map of Fort Kochi and Mattancherry.

176 places · 35 streets · 18 historic

All Places

Eat & drink

47 places

Arasta Fortkochi Arrow Mark B For Biriyani Balan Chettan Kada Cafe 27 Café Le Te Cafe Sol e Mar Canvas Restaurant & Pizzeria Chez Teapot Club House Restaurant Coz Layover Ezekiel House Residence and Cafe Fort Paragon Restaurant by Calicut Paragon Francis French Toast Fusion Bay Gelato Pillai Hotel Aryaas Park House of Commons Jetty Restaurant Kashi Art Cafe and Gallery Kayees Rahmathulla Cafe Kerala Cafe (Rose Street)Kerala State Beverages Corporation Outlet Lassy House Let’s Kimchi Loafers Corner Cafe Los angeles Café Fort Kochi Loving Earth Cafe Mocha Art Cafe Nettoor Toddy Shop Nooriya Hotel O Porto Bar by Mai House Heritage Hotel, Fort Kochi Pandaris Biriyani & Caterers Pandhal Café & Deli Ravis Coffee Works Rawal Lassi Joint Rinoos cool bar Samridhi@Kochi Scandy - Ice Candy - Fort Kochi Seagull Solar Café Sri Krishna Café Tibet Kitchen Tibetan Chef’s Restaurant Trouvaille Vijaya Lakshmi Bhavan

All 47 places to eat & drink

Historic

18 places

Althara Bhagavathy Temple Bastion Bungalow Chinese fishing nets / Vasco da Gama Square Cochin Thirumala Devaswom Temple Dharmanath Jain Temple Head Post Office, Kochi Holy Cross Church (Coonan Kurisu Palli), Mattancherry Jail of Freedom Struggle, Fort Kochi Keraleswaram Siva Temple Mahadev Temple Mullakkal Vana Durga Temple Palliyarakkavu Temple Paradesi Synagogue Pazhayanur Bhagavathy Temple Santa Cruz Cathedral Basilica, Fort Cochin Sree Veera Venkateshwara Temple St. Francis CSI Church St. Paul’s Public School

All 18 historic places

Outdoors

14 places

Bolghatty Island Chellanam Beach Kochi Fort Kochi Beach Kumbalangi Kumbalangi Bioluminescence Point Pallathu Raman Memorial Hall Parade Ground and the VOC Gate Puthanthodu Beach Puthuvype Beach Secret Routes Kayaking Valappu Beach (also called Falcon Beach)Vasco da Gama Square Veli Ground Vypeen Island

All 14 outdoor places

Getting around

14 places

Cheranelloor Water Metro Station Cochin International Airport Customs Boat Jetty Eloor Water Metro Station Fort Kochi Water Metro Station High Court Water Metro Station Kakkanad Water Metro Station Mattancherry Boat Jetty Mattancherry Water Metro Station Mulavukad North Water Metro Station Ro-Ro Ferry Jetty, Fort Kochi South Chittoor Water Metro Station Vypin Water Metro Station Vyttila Water Metro Station

All 14 ways of getting around

Event venues

13 places

111 Markaz & Cafe aikyam space Anand Warehouse Aspinwall House BMS Warehouse Devassy Jose & Sons Garden Convention Centre Kara. Hotel. Fort Kochi Pepper House SMS Hall St. Andrew’s Parish Hall Vallabhdas Kanji Limited (VKL Warehouse)Willingdon Island Warehouse

All 13 event venues

Shops

7 places

Idiom Book Sellers Kaycee Corporation Kochi Books Preethi Stores Shantilal S Mithaiwala Shri Ashapura Sweet House & Lassi Centre Vinod Sweets

Libraries

4 places

Govinda Pai Memorial Library Herschel Memorial Library Iqbal Library and Reading Room Saraswatha Association Library