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Town in Kasargod District, Kerala, India

Bekal

Bekal is a small town in the Kasaragod district on the West coast of the state of Kerala, India.

Bekal
Bekal · Vijayanrajapuram (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The place

Bekal is a small town in the Kasaragod district on the West coast of the state of Kerala, India.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bekal

2 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.

  1. 01
    Bekal Fort

    Bekal Fort is a medieval fort built by Shivappa Nayaka of Keladi in 1650 AD, at Bekal.

    3.3 km · Fort in Kasaragod district, Keralam, India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Chandragiri Fort

    Chandragiri Fort is a fort built in the 17th century, situated in Kasaragod District of Kerala, India. This large squarish fort is 150 feet above sea level and occupies an area of about seven acres the adjacent to Chandragiri river.

    5.9 km · Fort in Kasaragod district, Keralam, India · 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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Bekal Fort

    Sprawling fortress offering sweeping sea views, preserved battlement walls, gates & tunnels.

  2. 02
    Mukhyaprana Hanuman Temple
  3. 03
    Thrikkannatt Beach

    There are three beautiful temples in this area.

  4. 04
    Bekal Beach Park

From Wikivoyage: Bekal, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Bekal

Airports
Mangaluru (IXE), 61 km · Kannur (CNN), 80 km · Calicut (CCJ), 175 km
Stations
Kotikulam railway station, 400 m · Bekal Fort railway station, 4.4 km · Kalanad railway station, 5.9 km
  • Mangaluru → Bekal
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · ₹440–550
  • Kannur → Bekal
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · ₹490–610
  • Calicut → Bekal
    151 km · quickest by road, 3h 39m · ₹1,090–1,360
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bekal

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 Bekal. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundAutorickshaws are the only available local transport.

From Wikivoyage: Bekal, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.

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

    7 ways of moving, 14 sources

    249 km
  2. 02
    NelliyampathyIN

    7 ways of moving, 26 sources

    277 km
  3. 03
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    340 km
  4. 04
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    348 km
  5. 05
    AgattiIN

    8 ways of moving, 19 sources

    353 km

If you know how people move in Bekal – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Bekal

Bekal is 58 km from Mangaluru, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.