| Cochin India Album |
| Cochin is a southwest coastal city of 677,000 with a metra population of 2.1 million. It was a major trade town with Europe during the middle ages. It was first colonized by Portugal in 1503. This was the 5th port stop of our 2019 cruise. |
| The cruise port at Cochin |
| We were welcomed with drumbeats. |
| Thrikkahara Temple--we had to take our shoes off. |
| Cochin India is located at 10 degrees N latitude or about 700 miles north of the equator. Still very very hot. |
| The fisherman have a unique fishing method by just lowering the nets and at the correct time raise them to catch fish. |
| Where oil is burnt in prayer. |
| Water "fountain" for this cloth factory. The water could not be shut off and continuosly leaked. |
| Downstairs they spun the threads. |
| Upstairs they weaved the threads into cloth. |
| The ladies make between $7 and $11 a day. |
| Joanne buying some of the product--a wrap. |
| Lunchtime--we just ate packaged things like potato chips. |
| Next a coconut demonstration here showing how they are picked. |
| The coconut is broken open. |
| Everybody gets a slice of coconut. |
| Next we go for a ride in a local version of a canoe. |
| After soaking the coconut shell for months, it is chopped to separate the hairs. |
| The coconut shell hairs are then weaved by hand or spinning wheel into rope. |
| The riverbank at times was engulfed in vegetation. |
| The water was brown but this lady still washed her clothes in the river. |
| One of two bewildered tourists. |
| The two tourists getting a Tuk-Tuk ride to the bus. |
| Two of the many homeless sites along the road. |
| An election was coming up and there were many communists signs. |
| The Queen Mary 2 docked at the cruise port at Cochin. |
| Shops by the ship at the cruise port. |
| A small sample of what they sold. |