Located on the Kerala coast, Cochin has been a major seaport & trading center since before the days of the Roman Empire. Cochin boasts a Portuguese church, a Dutch palace, an exquisite Synagogue (which closes on Friday's), Chinese-style fishing nets, English Tudor-style mansions and old warehouses still bursting with spices and coir. Cochin is also the southern gateway to greater India. We hired a car with another couple & drove around for 4 hours seeing the various sights. A friend told us before we left that when going to India "look up." The poverty is heartwrenching and the garbage everywhere. Cochin is not a place I would recommend to travelers, however I'm sure Bombay will be better
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Located on the Kerala coast, Cochin has been a major seaport & trading center since before the days of the Roman Empire. Cochin boasts a Portuguese church, a Dutch palace, an exquisite Synagogue (which closes on Friday's), Chinese-style fishing nets, English Tudor-style mansions and old warehouses still bursting with spices and coir. Cochin is also the southern gateway to greater India. We hired a car with another couple & drove around for 4 hours seeing the various sights. A friend told us before we left that when going to India "look up." The poverty is heartwrenching and the garbage everywhere. Cochin is not a place I would recommend to travelers, however I'm sure Bombay will be better
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