Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Beypore: Wooden Boat



Beypore is a small coastal census town in Kozhikode district in the state of Kerala, India. The place was formerly known as Beppur / Vadaparappanad.Beppur means the land put or placed. This place also has a small port and a beautiful beach. Beypore port is one of the oldest known ports in Kerala from where trading was done with the Middle East. Beypore is also famous for building wooden ship, it is called Dhow, or Uru in the Malayalam language. These ships are usually bought by arab merchants for trading, fishing and now used as a tourist ships. The ships are moved to the sea by workers known aas the Khalasies.
Cancellation was introduced on 17.05.2006
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Beypore- 673015

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