Private Shore Excursion to Jewish Heritage of Kochi, India

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We pick you up from your hotel. If you are arriving by ship to Kochi you will be met at side of the ship with pager board of Your Name. The tours are customized to suit the arrival and departure schedule of your ship to ensure you have a worry free Shore Excursion.

Comfortable transportation, entertaining and enriching experience.,

We offer a tour to visit the ancient Jewish Heritage in Kochi ( India) It explores the sites of Jewish settlements of Kochi, Muziris aka Kodungallur, Paravoor, Chendamangalam.

The tour involves a morning drive to the above villages which give you opportunity to find life of people civilized with great sense of hospitality. The tour visits preserved synagogues at above places which were ancient Jewish Settlements.in India.

A lunch break in a beach restaurant and a drive to the modern city of Kochi to visit a synagogue of the Ethiopian Jews which is preserved by the present warden is added attraction of this tour..

Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product

Stop At: Excel India Tours, Kochi (Cochin) 682040 India

We will receive you at the hotel where you are booked to stay. If it is to Kochi Port you are arriving we will meet you at the port by the side of the ship.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Jew Town, Old Cochin, Kochi (Cochin) 682002 India

From the point of pick up the tour will proceed to Jewish Town to visit the ancient Synagogue and the town of early Jewish settlers.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Mattancherry Palace, Palace Road, Kochi (Cochin) India

From Jewish Town the tour will go to Mattancherry Palace Museum aka Dutch Palace Museum

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Fort Kochi Beach, Kochi (Cochin) 682001 India

From Mattancherry Palace museum the tour will go to Fort Kochi beach to watch Chinese Fishing nets in operation all over the beach.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Church of Saint Francis, Old Kochi, Kochi (Cochin) India

From the Chinese Fishing nets the tour will go to Church of St. Francis to pay homage to Vasco da Gama where he was originally buried when he died in Kochi C.E.1524

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Dakshina Mookambika Temple, N. Paravur Ernakulam Dist, Paravoor, Kochi (Cochin) 683513 India

It is near this temple that the ancient Ethiopian Jewish settlement is.The group if interested will visit this temple and later go to the preserved Synagogue

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Chendamangalam Jewish Synagogue, Near Kottayil Kovilakom, Chendamangalam India

From Paravoor the tour will go to Chendamangalam to visit the preserved synagogue there.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Cherai Beach Rd, Kochi (Cochin), Vypin Island 683514 India

At noon the lunch is taken here in the restaurant of the Cherai beach Resort.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Thekkumbhagom Synagogue, 40/3051 B-29, Jew St, Broadway,Menaka, Marine Drive, Kochi, Kerala 682035, India

After lunch the tour will return to Kochi. At Kochi the tour will visit if time permits this synagogue.

Duration: 30 minutes