Royal Heritage Tour

You will be picked up from your hotel in the afternoon at 2pm. Fort Kochi has been a port city since early centuries. The city is also known as the Spice Coast of India as it attracted many traders and conquerors from all over the world. On this tour, you will have the opportunity to learn about the development of Kochi through the history of the royal family. Through a series of anecdotes, you will learn about their origins, the rise and fall of their fortunes under the Europeans, before their eventual merger with the Indian Union.

We look at their role in the development of the modern city of Kochi and their contributions in the fields of art, language, education and medicine. Starting from Hill Palace, the last seat of power of the Rajahs, we move on to the residential area that showcases the best of traditional and colonial architecture.  The tour will end with a traditional high tea, where, with a bit of luck, one or two family members of the former Rajahs will be present.