Akathumuri
Akathumuri is a scenic lakeside village and an education hub in Cheruniyoor panchayat of Varkala Taluk in Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala, India.
Akathumuri is a scenic lakeside village and an education hub in Cheruniyoor panchayat of Varkala Taluk in Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala, India. Village is situated 7 km (4.3 mi) south of Varkala city centre and 39 km (24 mi) north of Trivandrum City.
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Worth seeing in and around Akathumuri
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.
- 01Anchuthengu Fort
The fort was the East India Company's first permanent post on the Malabar Coast. In November 1693, John Brabourne was sent by the British East India Company to Attingal, where he obtained from Rani Ashure a grant of a site for a fort on the sandy spit of Anchuthengu, together with the monopoly of the pepper trade of Attingal.
3.7 km · building in India · Wikipedia
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Getting to Akathumuri
- Airports
- Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 30 km · Cochin (COK), 167 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 261 km
- Stations
- Kadakkavoor railway station, 2.1 km · Akathumuri railway station, 500 m
- Kochi → Akathumuri148 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · ₹1,110–1,380
- Coimbatore → Akathumuri257 km · quickest by road, 7h 5m · ₹2,330–2,920
- Calicut → Akathumuri303 km · quickest by road, 7h 35m · ₹2,220–2,770
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No local-transport research exists yet for Akathumuri
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 Akathumuri. 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.
From Wikivoyage: Varkala, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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Next door to Akathumuri
Akathumuri is 28 km from Kollam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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