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Karavilai

Karavilai is a place in Marthandam in Kanniyakumari district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

Karavilai
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The place

Karavilai is a place in Marthandam in Kanniyakumari district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Karavilai comes under town panchayat of Nallur (Nalloor), Kanyakumari District. The area is full of greenery and there is passage of shallow of water in the region. Soil found around Marthandam is one of the most fertile lands of Tamil Nadu and the region has the climatic conditions of Kerala.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Karavilai

4 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
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Kuzhithurai

    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kuzhithura is a diocese located in Tamil Nadu. It was erected on 22 December 2014 by Pope Francis with territory taken from the Diocese of Kottar.

    3.8 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Ithiyapuram kaavu

    Temple in India

    1.4 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Marthandam CSI Church

    Marthandam CSI Church, officially known as CSI District Church, Marthandam, is a Church of South India church in Martandam, Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu. The congregation traces its origins to 1836, when the missionary Charles Miller acquired land and established a church at Martandam.

    1.4 km · building in India · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Lourdes Mount College of Engineering & Technology

    Anna University in Tamil Nadu, India has many affiliated institutions.

    4 km · engineering college in Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, 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 Karavilai

Airports
Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 39 km · Cochin (COK), 225 km
Stations
Kulitturai railway station, 700 m
  • Kochi → Karavilai
    211 km · quickest by road, 5h 11m · ₹1,660–2,080
  • Coimbatore → Karavilai
    303 km · quickest by road, 8h 17m · ₹2,950–3,690
  • Tiruchirappalli → Karavilai
    324 km · quickest by road, 7h 9m · ₹2,570–3,210
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Karavilai

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    6 ways of moving, 16 sources

    127 km
  2. 02
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    138 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    195 km
  4. 04
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    210 km
  5. 05
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    214 km

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

Around it

Next door to Karavilai

Karavilai is 36 km from Thiruvananthapuram, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Kuzhithuratown in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India3 km
  • UnnamalaikadaiVillage in Kanniyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India2.7 km
  • KilkulamVillage in Kanniyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India3.5 km
  • MarthandamVillage in Kanniyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India1.4 km
  • Thirunattalamneighbourhood in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India3 km