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First-person accounts from across Kerala — the places, the people, and the moments that stay with you.

Every entry here is written from memory and from notes scribbled in the field. No press trips, no sponsored itineraries — just the Kerala I know and keep returning to.

Fort Kochi

18 July 20247 min read

Fort Kochi on foot

The best way to understand Fort Kochi is to get lost in it. Not metaphorically — literally. Leave the map in your pocket, turn down the lanes that look too narrow to be interesting, and follow your nose toward the smell of coffee and old wood.

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