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Dhanuvachapuram

Dhanuvachapuram is a village in Thiruvananthapuram district in the state of Kerala, India.

The place

Dhanuvachapuram is a village in Thiruvananthapuram district in the state of Kerala, India. It is located at a height of about 100 meters from sea level. Dhanuvachapuram is also known the education center of Neyyattinkara because there are lot of colleges and schools situated here.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dhanuvachapuram

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
    Arayoor Sree Mahadevar

    Arayoor Major Sree Mahadevar Temple is one of the major worship places in Arayoor in Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala, very close to Tamil Nadu border. It is a Shiva temple.

    3.1 km · Hindu temple in Kerala · 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 Dhanuvachapuram

Airports
Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 25 km · Cochin (COK), 212 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 294 km
  • Kochi → Dhanuvachapuram
    197 km · quickest by road, 4h 53m · ₹1,550–1,930
  • Coimbatore → Dhanuvachapuram
    292 km · quickest by road, 8h 10m · ₹2,680–3,350
  • Tiruchirappalli → Dhanuvachapuram
    320 km · quickest by road, 7h 25m · ₹2,660–3,320
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Dhanuvachapuram

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom the station, hire a taxi or auto-rickshaw to Poovar (approximately ₹300–400 by auto, ₹500–600 by taxi).
  • Get inTaxis and auto-rickshaws are the most convenient option for the final stretch.
  • Get aroundAuto-rickshaws are available for moving between the jetty, resorts, and the village proper.
  • Get aroundRates for a standard one-hour backwater and beach cruise start at approximately ₹600–1,000 per person for shared boats; private charters cost more.

From Wikivoyage: Poovar, 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
    GaviIN

    6 ways of moving, 16 sources

    118 km
  2. 02
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    128 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    185 km
  4. 04
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    201 km
  5. 05
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    204 km

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

Around it

Next door to Dhanuvachapuram

Dhanuvachapuram is 23 km from Thiruvananthapuram, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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