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Chalakkal

Chalakkal is a village in Ernakulam district in the state of Kerala, India.

The place

Chalakkal is a village in Ernakulam district in the state of Kerala, India. Chalakkal is situated at a distance of seven kilometres from Aluva, one of the prominent urban centres in the Ernakulam district. Geographically positioned on the riparian banks of the Periyar River, Chalakkal constitutes a scenic rural settlement.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Chalakkal

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
    Chowara Chidambaraswamy Temple

    Chowara Chidambaraswamy Temple is located at Chowara in Ernakulam district. The presiding deities of north shrine are Shiva in the form of Nataraja, in the sanctum sanctorum facing east.

    1.9 km · Hindu temple in 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.

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Getting to Chalakkal

Airports
Cochin (COK), 4 km · Calicut (CCJ), 124 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 124 km
Stations
Chowara railway station, 3.6 km
  • Calicut → Chalakkal
    81 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · ₹730–910
  • Coimbatore → Chalakkal
    44 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · ₹425–530
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Chalakkal
    256 km · quickest by road, 6h 11m · ₹1,940–2,430
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Chalakkal

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get in{{marker|type |wikidata By ferry=== Aluva is one major stop for National Waterway 3, scheduled to open by August 2010 which connects to Thiruvananthapuram in south and Kottapuram (Thrissur) in north.

From Wikivoyage: Aluva, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

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

    7 ways of moving, 26 sources

    56 km
  2. 02
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    87 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    87 km
  4. 04
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    94 km
  5. 05
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    109 km

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

Around it

Next door to Chalakkal

Chalakkal is 22 km from Kanayannur, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.