✨🆕 Thanaloram: An Urban Canopy Walk | Ernakulam

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• A narrative-led walk through one of  Kochi's oldest public parks, seen for the first time through the lens of its trees
• Stories of migrant species: plants that arrived with traders, colonisers, and travellers, and quietly became part of Kochi's landscape
• Stories of local species: plants that feel like home
• The layered history of Subash Park, its changing names, its many communities, and what has remained constant across it all
• A fresh lens on climate action: rooted in place, story, and everyday attention rather than policy and data
• Guided by The Kochi Heritage Project — seven years of narrative-led heritage experiences in Kochi

Thanaloram is more than an evening nature walk. It is a small, deliberate act of urban stewardship and it connects to some of the most pressing global commitments of our time.

SDG 11 · Sustainable Cities and Communities

By bringing people into intentional relationship with a public green space, Thanaloram makes the case that urban commons - parks, tree canopies, shared gathering grounds are not amenities. They are infrastructure. Every story told under Subash Park's canopy is an argument for protecting it.

SDG 13 · Climate Action

Climate action begins with attention. This walk builds the place-based environmental literacy and emotional connection to urban ecosystems that precedes any meaningful individual or civic action. You cannot protect what you have never truly noticed.

SDG 15 · Life on Land

The stories of Kochi's migrant trees - species that arrived with traders, colonisers, and travellers — open a window into urban biodiversity, the fragility of green corridors, and the deep entanglement between human history and plant life in a coastal city.

SDG 4 · Quality Education

Accessible, narrative-led learning in a public space. Open to families, children, and adults alike, Thanaloram brings environmental and heritage education into the city itself.

SDG 10 · Reduced Inequalities

A low-barrier experience in a public park because we believe heritage and environmental storytelling belongs to everyone.

SDG 17 · Partnerships for the Goals

Thanaloram was collaboratively developed by The Kochi Heritage Project and interns from Sacred Heart College, East Campus, as part of a structured NEP internship programme. A cross-sector partnership between a heritage social enterprise and a higher education institution, working toward a shared public outcome.

The Kochi Heritage Project designs experiences that are aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Thanaloram is part of our ongoing commitment to community-rooted climate awareness and urban heritage education.

• Guided heritage walk through Subash Park
• Storytelling and interpretation at each stop
• Entry to the walk

• This is a walking trail, and we do not use vehicles.
• Hotel pickups and drops.
• Food & beverages
• Sightseeing points that fall outside of the curated route.
• We do not provide umbrellas, raincoats, hats/caps, face-masks or sanitizers.
• We do not enter any heritage monuments except what is mentioned in the inclusions.
• No prior knowledge of history or ecology needed but curiosity is mandatory

• Please carry your own water bottle. We encourage a reusable bottle.
• We recommend wearing comfortable footwear and using sunscreen.
• Please also carry your own umbrella / raincoat or cap / hat / sunglasses (as the weather dictates).
• Parking at your own risk. Only street level parking is available.

• Photography is permitted but ask the storyteller first. Videography is not permitted. If you are a researcher, guide, a travel writer, or a blogger, kindly request consent from the Organizer before the tour.
• We will be serving refreshments / meals (if applicable) in places that follow hygiene and sanitary guidelines approved by The Kochi Heritage Project.

• The Kochi Heritage Project works on a 100% advance payment before the walk. Tour bookings shall be confirmed only once The Kochi Heritage Project receives full payment.
• Tour can be cancelled up to 7 days before their start for a full refund. Tour cancellation made between 7 to 3 days of the tour incur a 50% cancellation fee and within 3 days of the tour date incur a 100% cancellation fee, though they can be rescheduled for no additional fees.
• No refunds will be issued in case an attendee/attendees fail to turn up for the tour.
• All of our tours are rain or shine, and will only be cancelled due to extreme weather conditions. If a guest chooses to cancel a tour due to weather, the above policy stands.
• Cancellation of a tour due to circumstances beyond the control of The Kochi Heritage Project including but not limited to an act of God, riots, war, strikes, civil unrest, terrorism, governmental regulations, floods, earthquakes, fire, extreme weather and other natural disasters, shall be made at The Kochi Heritage Project's sole discretion without notice. Actual costs incurred on special arrangements made for the tour (if any), including cancellation charges on vehicles booked shall be deducted.
• The Kochi Heritage Project shall at its discretion be entitled to cancel any tour on a full refund of the fees to the guest for any reason that the company may deem fit with or without prior notice to the guest.
• Payment of refund shall be made within 15 days of walk cancellation. (subject to the above cancellation policy)