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Mandaikadu

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

The place

Mandaikadu is a coastal 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 Mandaikadu

6 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
    Padmanabhapuram Palace

    Padmanabhapuram Palace, also known as Kalkulam Palace, is a Travancore-era palace located in Padmanabhapuram in the Kanyakumari district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The palace is owned, controlled and maintained by the Kerala Government.

    2 km · palace in Travancore · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Udayagiri Fort

    Fort in Tamil Nadu, India

    1.4 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Thiruvithamcode Arappally

    St. Mary's Orthodox Syrian Church, Thiruvithamkode, also called Thiruvithamcode Arappally or Thomayar Kovil, is a church located in Thiruvithamcode in Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu state in India.

    2.8 km · building in India · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St. Mary's Basilica

    St. Mary's Basilica is a church dedicated to Our Lady of the Nativity in Mulagumoodu, Tamil Nadu, India.

    5.3 km · church in Tamil Nadu, India · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St. Antony's Church, Chemmanvilai

    St. Antony's Church, Chemmanvilai[1] is a Roman Catholic Church located in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India.

    1.6 km · church in Chemmanvilai · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education

    Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education, formerly Noorul Islam College of Engineering, is a private co-educational Institution in Kumarakovil, Thuckalay, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India. The institution was founded in 1989 by A.P. Majeed Khan and it was declared as a Deemed to be University by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt.

    3.4 km · University in 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 Mandaikadu

Airports
Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 53 km · Cochin (COK), 236 km
Stations
Eraniel Railway station, 3 km
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Mandaikadu
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · ₹405–500
  • Kochi → Mandaikadu
    227 km · quickest by road, 5h 31m · ₹1,780–2,230
  • Coimbatore → Mandaikadu
    318 km · quickest by road, 7h 59m · ₹2,890–3,620
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mandaikadu

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundAutorickshaws, taxis and local buses are easily available.

From Wikivoyage: Nagercoil, 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

    135 km
  2. 02
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    145 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    203 km
  4. 04
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    217 km
  5. 05
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    221 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mandaikadu

Mandaikadu is 50 km from Thiruvananthapuram, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Padmanabhapuramtown in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India2 km
  • EranielVillage in Kanniyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India4.6 km
  • NeyyoorVillage in Kanniyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India4.6 km
  • VillukuriVillage in Kanniyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India4.9 km
  • Thiruvithamcodetown3.6 km
  • KumarapuramVillage in Kanniyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India4.2 km