Kurumbapet
Kurumbapet is a town and a gram panchayat in Pondicherry district in the Indian union territory of Puducherry.
Kurumbapet is a town and a gram panchayat in Pondicherry district in the Indian union territory of Puducherry.
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Worth seeing in and around Kurumbapet
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.
- 01Ousteri Lake
Ousteri Lake is a lake shared between the union territory of Puducherry, and the state of Tamil Nadu. The spatial extend of the lake is almost equal in between the two states, and it is one of the largest tanks in the Puducherry region.
3.9 km · lake in Puducherry, India · Wikipedia - 02Kameeswarar temple
Thirukameeswarar Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to the deity Shiva, located in Villianur, a town in the South Indian union territory of Puducherry. Shiva is worshiped as Kameeswarar, and is represented by the lingam.
900 m · Hindu temple in Puducherry, India · Wikipedia - 03Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine
Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, Villianur, Puducherry is a Catholic Marian shrine and a parish church in Villianur, Puducherry, India. The shrine is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title of Our Lady of Lourdes.
1.5 km · building in India · Wikipedia - 04St. Andrew's Church, Puducherry
St. Andrew's Church is one of the oldest churches in Reddiarpalayam area of Puducherry, a Union territory in South India.
5 km · church in Puducherry, India · Wikipedia
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Getting to Kurumbapet
- Airports
- Chennai (MAA), 127 km · Tiruchirappalli (TRZ), 171 km · Tirupati (TIR), 192 km
- Stations
- Villianur railway station, 800 m
- Chennai → Kurumbapet139 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · ₹1,090–1,370
- Tiruchirappalli → Kurumbapet171 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · ₹1,260–1,580
- Tirupati → Kurumbapet192 km · quickest by road, 4h 9m · ₹1,480–1,850
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Kurumbapet
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 Kurumbapet. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAuto-rickshaws are available from outside the bus station.
- Get inYou can also take a 30-minute auto rickshaw from the airport to the centre of town.
- Get inThe rate for taking an auto rickshaw from within the airport complex to the city centre is about ₹150, as of Apr 2013.
- Get aroundThere is a sparse network of buses and shared auto-rickshaws that can be ridden for ₹5-20 per ride depending on the distance.
- Get aroundShared-auto-rickshaws can be found at the bus stand, along certain points on Bussy Road and Grand Canal - the most common route is from the bus stand, along Bussy Road, around Grand Canal, and then back up Bussy Road to the bus stand - but be sure to ask if the auto goes to your destination as not all autos will follow this route.
From Wikivoyage: Pondicherry, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Kurumbapet is 6 km from Gundupālaiyam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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