Afternoon start a city tour of Cochin with a legendary biriyani (scented rice cooked in ghee and strewn with Mutton or Chicken) at Mattancherry . Walk through the Jews Street - the ancient Spice Market at Mattancherry where you can bargain for spices, coffee, tea, dry ginger, etc and also look for quaint antique items. Then see the Chinese Fishing Nets and also give your hands in operating the nets.  You can buy seafood from the beachside stalls near the nets and get them to cook for you to get the real fresh taste.  Evening watch a Kathakali show – the traditional 500 year old dance drama of Kerala. Night  back to hotel.

After breakfast,  wade through the confusion in the Ernakulam market and see the variety and freshness of the vegetable and fish.  Have a cup of coffee with snacks at the Indian Coffee House (only seen in Kerala).   Shop for handicrafts at Kairali Emporium and silks at Kalyan silks. Evening watch a cooking demonstration of traditional Kerala cuisine with a chef  followed by dinner.

Morning check out and proceed to Alleppey.  Board the traditional houseboat and start the long and meandering ride through the unique backwaters of Kerala in a thatched roof houseboat. The houseboat is an improvisation of the large country barges, which were an essential part of the land's ethos in days gone by.  The kettuvalloms (houseboats) are comfortably furnished with an open lounge, bath attached bedrooms and a kitchenette, and are extremely eco friendly. Every houseboat is manned by a crew - chef, guide and an oarsman. Winding through the vast expanse of the paddy fields(you can stop at any place if you like to take a walk on the fields or see how rice cultivation is done below sea level) and tiny hamlets and palm fringed narrow canals is an unforgettable experience.  Enroute you can dine on delicious Kuttanad food at different spots on the Vembanad Lake shore. Grilled lobster, karimeen pollichethu (pearl spot), cream prawn curry, duck specialties or you can buy them enroute the cruise and ask the chef to cook for you. Do not miss on the traditional combination of kappa and fish curry (served on the houseboat), ideally washed down with fresh toddy. This is an exotic brew made from fermented coconut water. Toddy is collected from the trees by experienced tappers either at dawn or dusk (if you are lucky you can see them while you’re passing through the narrow canals on the houseboat).  You can also catch your own fish from the backwaters and ask the chef to fry it.
Night in the houseboat.

After a sumptuous breakfast disembark the houseboat.  Transfer to a resort.
Late morning, drive to Aranmula and watch the metal mirror craftsmen at work. These are unique handcrafted mirrors, which you can buy as gifts. This is a unique art, which is not to be found anywhere else in the world.  Evening return back to the resort.

Check out from hotel/resort enroute visit the Coir factory of Aspinwall (of which Paradise tours is a part) and see the various processes of the yarn being converted into mats and matting in tradition handloom and in modern powerlooms.  Proceed to Cochin and drop at Cochin airport.