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Karungal

Karungal is a panchayat town in Kanniyakumari district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

Karungal
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The place

Karungal is a panchayat town in Kanniyakumari district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Karungal

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
    Parthasarathy 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.

    4.5 km · 9th-century Hindu temple with Vedic school · Wikipedia

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Getting to Karungal

Airports
Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 40 km · Cochin (COK), 230 km
Stations
Colachel Seaport, 1.6 km
  • Kochi → Karungal
    218 km · quickest by road, 5h 17m · ₹1,710–2,140
  • Coimbatore → Karungal
    309 km · quickest by road, 8h 5m · ₹2,910–3,640
  • Tiruchirappalli → Karungal
    328 km · quickest by road, 6h 57m · ₹2,530–3,160
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Karungal

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 Karungal. 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

    134 km
  2. 02
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    144 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    202 km
  4. 04
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    216 km
  5. 05
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    220 km

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Around it

Next door to Karungal

Karungal is 38 km from Thiruvananthapuram, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Thengapattanamneighbourhood in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India1.5 km
  • Enayam PuthenthuraiVillage in Kanniyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India1.6 km
  • ThoothoorVillage in Kanniyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India5.5 km