Kumbalangi
Kumbalangi is an island village in the outskirts of Kochi city in the state of Kerala, India.
Kumbalangi is an island village in the outskirts of Kochi city in the state of Kerala, India. Situated amidst backwaters, around 12 km (7.5 mi) from the city center, Kumbalangi is a major tourist attraction and is famous for its Chinese fishing nets. It is also known among the tourists for the occurrence of the natural phenomenon known as sea sparkle or bioluminescence in the backwaters at Kumbalangi, which is locally known as Kavaru. It is the first eco-tourism village in India, according to the government agency Kerala Tourism.
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Worth seeing in and around Kumbalangi
2 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.
- 01Aquinas College, Edacochin
Mahatma Gandhi University is a system of universities throughout the Indian state of Kerala. A number of institutes of higher learning can be found within this university system, including those focused on both Engineering and the humanities.
3.5 km · Arts and Science College · Wikipedia - 02Kannamaly Church, Ernakulam
St. Antony's Forane Church is a historic Catholic Latin Church pilgrimage church located in Kannamaly, a coastal suburb of Kochi, in the Ernakulam district of Kerala, India.
2.8 km · church building in Ernakulam district, India · Wikipedia
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Getting to Kumbalangi
- Airports
- Cochin (COK), 32 km · Calicut (CCJ), 144 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 152 km
- Calicut → Kumbalangi163 km · quickest by road, 4h 14m · ₹1,200–1,500
- Coimbatore → Kumbalangi146 km · quickest by road, 3h 44m · ₹1,260–1,580
- Thiruvananthapuram → Kumbalangi171 km · quickest by road, 4h 7m · ₹1,270–1,590
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No local-transport research exists yet for Kumbalangi
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 Kumbalangi. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundApart from tourist houseboats, regular ferries operated by Kerala State Inland Navigation Company (KSINC) and traditional country-side canoes also operate in the region.
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Next door to Kumbalangi
Kumbalangi is 7 km from Kochi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.