Varkala
Worth seeing in and around Varkala
3 places 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.
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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.
Getting to Varkala
- Airports
- Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 36 km · Cochin (COK), 161 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 258 km
- Stations
- Varkala Sivagiri railway station, 1.1 km · Edavai railway station, 3.9 km
- Kochi → Varkala143 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · ₹1,060–1,320
- Coimbatore → Varkala254 km · quickest by road, 6h 55m · ₹2,240–2,800
- Calicut → Varkala298 km · quickest by road, 7h 25m · ₹2,170–2,710
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Varkala
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 Varkala. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom Varkala Railway Station, taxis and auto rickshaws can be hired.
- Get inPapanasam Beach is around 5 km from Varkala Railway Station ₹40/₹50 by Auto Rickshaw).
- Get aroundThe town of Varkala is about 5 km inland, centered around the train station, and can be reached via autorickshaw for ₹80 The resort area lies along two cliffs, north and south, overlooking the beach areas.
- Go nextKollam - about an hour north by taxi, an easy half-day trip to take a boat ride on the backwaters.
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Next door to Varkala
Varkala is 22 km from Kollam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Vettoorvillage in Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala, India3.5 km
- Cherunniyoor Grama PanchayatGram Panchayat in Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala, India3.5 km
- Sivagiri, Keralaarea in Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala, India1.8 km
- Varkala Municipalitymunicipality in Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala, India1 km
- Varkala Taluktaluk in Trivandrum district900 m