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1 Fort Cochin
Fort Cochin has a couple of small, sandy beaches which are only really good for people-
watching in the evening and gazing out at the incoming tankers. A popular promenade
winds around to the unofficial emblems of Kerala's backwaters: cantilevered Chinese fishing
nets MAP GOOGLE MAP . A legacy of traders from the AD 1400 court of Kublai Khan, these
enormous, spiderlike contraptions require at least four people to operate their counter-
weights at high tide. Unfortunately, modern fishing techniques are making these labour-
intensive methods less and less profitable.
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