Enjoy visiting Paliam Nalukettu, the Karela history and lifestyle museum and the Paliam Palace museum. Nalukettu was occupied by the women of Paliam Noble family who followed matrilineal system. Drive through the Kottapuram market. The Kottappuram market is a trade centre that bears the stamp of both native and foreign influences. This Market would wake up at 3 am shut down at 3 pm. Arrive Kottapuram Fort, built by the Portuguese in 1523 was referred to popularly as Cranganore Fort and is now known as Kodungallur Fort. The Fort had a strategic position, on the mouth of the river Periyar before it joins the Arabian Sea, which gave it the advantage of controlling the ships and boats that passed to and from the interior of Malabar. Enjoy watching Chinese fishing net from here in the backwaters of Periyar River. Visit the Cheraman Juma Masjid, the first mosque in India and probably one of the oldest shrines in the world, burns an oil lamp which is believed to be more than a 1,000 years old. The mosque is believed to be established in 629 AD. Drive back to your hotel in Cochin or back to the Cochin port.