The search for stories always takes us to the streets of Cochin. The people we meet and the places we discover are so diverse that with each passing day, we stumble upon more and more intriguing facets of our city.

A trail with us means visiting places which are like our expanded neighbourhood, meeting people who are like our extended family and taking time to see, feel, appreciate, interact, share, love and belong. In our culture, when a new bride or groom comes to a family, we have a custom of taking the couple to visit the households of relatives and friends. The hosts prepare their homes to welcome the new member, cook delicious food and make sure that they feel at home. In the same way, during the trails, we introduce our new family member, i.e. you, to our larger family.

Families, kitchens, dining together, rituals, family temples, community festivals, traditional, makeshift markets, herbaries - if you love these, we have a space for you in our trails.  Each of these places will have a story for you, oral narratives interweaving culture and traditions with history and mythology, shared by people who have lived through it or heard it first-hand from their ancestors.

The stories and people are diverse and the experience of listening to it is unmatched. Beyond a tiny doorway in the agraharam (a Tamil Brahmin colony) in Mattancherry, while cooking aromatic sambar (a South Indian vegetable curry), the ‘paatti amma’ (granny) will tell you the story of their ancestors migrating to Cochin from Tamil Nadu to cook for the Raja of Cochin. In Jew Street, Ernakulam, your story teller will be the owner of an ornamental fish store who is also the guardian of a former Cochin synagogue situated behind the store.

SPIRIT are our local experts who share their STORY with us and based on them we arrange your travel in STYLE