Chinnathurai
Chinnathurai is a village in Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu, at the southern tip of India under the parent village of Ezhudesam.

Chinnathurai is a village in Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu, at the southern tip of India under the parent village of Ezhudesam.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Chinnathurai
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.
- 01Parthasarathy temple, Parthivapuram
Parthasarathy Temple, also spelled Parthasarathi Temple, is a 9th-century Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu in Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu, India. Spread over 2.5 acres, the temple is notable for the extensive records about it that have been discovered in Huzur Plates of Kollam.
3.4 km · 9th-century Hindu temple with Vedic school · Wikipedia
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Getting to Chinnathurai
- Airports
- Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 35 km · Cochin (COK), 225 km
- Kochi → Chinnathurai210 km · quickest by road, 5h 8m · ₹1,560–1,950
- Coimbatore → Chinnathurai306 km · quickest by road, 8h 24m · ₹3,010–3,760
- Tiruchirappalli → Chinnathurai331 km · quickest by road, 7h 16m · ₹2,630–3,280
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No local-transport research exists yet for Chinnathurai
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 Chinnathurai. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get in{{go | name | url | address 8.410410 | long from Kovalam | phone | hours | wikipedia Neyyattinkarastation1.jpg | wikidata=Q15262230 | lastedit=2026-05-16 | content By bus By taxi By auto-rickshaw=== In an auto-rickshaw ₹150-170 (per head) is a fair price.
- Get inAdvice being if they are trying to rip you off go to leave for another rickshaw and they will often back down and offer you a fair price; if not, get in a different rickshaw.
- Get aroundThe rate should be around ₹15 per kilometre on auto rickshaw but some drivers may try to overcharge up to ₹100 for 1 km.
From Wikivoyage: Kovalam, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.
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Next door to Chinnathurai
Chinnathurai is 33 km from Thiruvananthapuram, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Ezhudesamhuman settlement2.5 km
- NithiravilaiVillage in Kanniyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India1.4 km
- EraviputhenthuraiVillage in Kanniyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India1 km