> Forgot to mention - it'll be with two friends from the US who've never > been to India before. Any suggestions of cool things to do in Cochin > or environs either before or after?
Fish dishes at the Grand Hotel (it is a faded old three star hotel, quite cheap but clean .. but its restaurant is excellent, from the one or two meals I've had there) There's the usual attractions of kochi - the Chinese fishing nets, one of two active jewish communities in India with an old synagogue .. Plus of course using kochi as a base to get to kumarakom (or some beautiful old hindu temples within two or three hours from cochin, that will, unfortunately, not allow non hindus into them)
