Arrive Cochin. Meet our chauffeur outside the airport. Transfer to hotel. Thereafter proceed for sightseeing.

• Mattancherry Palace

  1 hoursAdmission Ticket Not Included

  The Mattancherry Palace is a Portuguese palace popularly known as the Dutch Palace. The Palace displays Kerala murals depicting portraits and exhibits of the Rajas of Kochi. The palace was included in the "tentative list" of UNESCO World Heritage Site. (9:45am–1pm0200pm–4:45pm)

• Paradesi Synagogue

  45 minsAdmission Ticket Not Included

  The Paradesi Synagogue is the oldest active synagogue in the Commonwealth of Nations, located in Kochi, Kerala, in South India. Constructed in 1568, it is one of seven synagogues of the Malabar Yehudan or Yehudan Mappila people or Cochin Jewish community in the Kingdom of Cochin. (timing 1000am -1200noon & 0300Pm to 0500pm)

• Chinese Fishing Nets

  45 minsAdmission Ticket Free

  Chinese Fishing Nets and the Vasco-da-Gama Square Legend has it that the famous Chinese explorer, Zheng He, introduced the Chinese Fishing Nets to the fishermen in Kochi over 500 years ago. Even though he would leave, these would become staple sights in these parts. The Chinese fishing nets,or Cheenvala for the locals, have attracted visitors in the Fort Kochi area for centuries. Most tour guides swear that the Vasco da Gama Square is the best spot to get the perfect view of these massive structures.

• Church of Saint Francis

  45 minsAdmission Ticket Free

  Saint Francis Church, in Fort Kochi (Fort Cochin), Kochi, originally built in 1503, is one of the oldest European churches in India and has great historical significance as a mute witness to the European colonial struggle in the subcontinent. The Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama died in Kochi in 1524 when he was on his third visit to India. His body was originally buried in this church, but after fourteen years his remains were removed to Lisbon.