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Malarikkal

Malarikkal is a small tourism hamlet located in Thiruvarpu panchayat in Kottayam town of Kerala, India.

Malarikkal
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The place

Malarikkal is a small tourism hamlet located in Thiruvarpu panchayat in Kottayam town of Kerala, India. It is a tourist destination known for its water lily fields.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Malarikkal

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
    Munroe Lighthouse

    The Munroe Lighthouse is a landmark in Pazhukkanila area of Kottayam, Kerala.

    3.4 km · lighthouse in Kerala, 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.

Go there

Getting to Malarikkal

Airports
Cochin (COK), 67 km · Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 129 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 174 km
  • Kochi → Malarikkal
    49 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · ₹415–520
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Malarikkal
    129 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · ₹1,030–1,290
  • Coimbatore → Malarikkal
    169 km · quickest by road, 4h 34m · ₹1,540–1,930
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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.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Malarikkal

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrequent ferries (run by the Kerala State Water Transport Corporation) from Alappuzha (Alleppey) run throughout the day.
  • Get aroundLocal taxis are also available, though they are considerably more expensive than autorickshaws.

From Wikivoyage: Kottayam, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

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

    6 ways of moving, 16 sources

    75 km
  2. 02
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    78 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    94 km
  4. 04
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    105 km
  5. 05
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    109 km

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

Around it

Next door to Malarikkal

Malarikkal is 49 km from Kochi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.