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Vagamon

Vagamon is an Indian hill station and a revenue village located in Peerumedu Taluk of Idukki district, and also Meenachil taluk and Kanjirappally taluk of Kottayam district in the state of Kerala, India.

Vagamon
Vagamon · Anand2202 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The place

Vagamon is an Indian hill station and a revenue village located in Peerumedu Taluk of Idukki district, and also Meenachil taluk and Kanjirappally taluk of Kottayam district in the state of Kerala, India. Located in the Western Ghats 25 kilometres (16 mi) east of Erattupetta on the border of Kottayam-Idukki districts, Vagamon is known for its natural environment. The Vagamon glass bridge is the longest cantilever glass bridge in India.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Vagamon

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Kurisumala Ashram

    Kurisumala Ashram is a Trappist monastery of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, located in the Sahya Mountains of Vagamon, Kerala, India.

    2.1 km · Indian Catholic monastery (1958-) · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Vagamon

Airports
Cochin (COK), 76 km · Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 134 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 150 km
  • Kochi → Vagamon
    76 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · ₹670–840
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Vagamon
    134 km · quickest by road, 3h 54m · ₹1,150–1,440
  • Coimbatore → Vagamon
    147 km · quickest by road, 5h 2m · ₹1,590–1,980
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Vagamon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundFrom Yendayar you can hire jeep to reach Wagamon Kurishumala.

From Wikivoyage: Wagamon, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2024-02.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    36 km
  2. 02
    GaviIN

    6 ways of moving, 16 sources

    39 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    51 km
  4. 04
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    66 km
  5. 05
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    67 km

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