Album: By Country | By Date India | April 2001 < Prev Image | Kochi | Next Image >
Travelogue: By Country | By Date India | April 2001  

 

Chinese fishing nets. Called "chinese" because some chinese traders from the court of Kublai Khan supposedly introduced them. The counterweighted nets are lowered into the water, a light suspended above them (these days electric), and prawns are collected.

© Monica & Mark Hughes 2000-02