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Village in Kerala, India

Mayyanād

Mayyanad is a village in Kollam district in the state of Kerala, India.

Mayyanād
Mayyanād · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Mayyanad is a village in Kollam district in the state of Kerala, India. Mayyanad is notable for contributing significantly to the workforce of the Government of Kerala.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mayyanād

3 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
    Paravur Kayal

    Paravur Kayal is a lake in Paravur, a municipality in the Kollam district of Kerala, India. Although it is small with an area of only 6.62 km2, it is the end point of the Ithikkara River and part of the system of lakes and canals that make up the Kerala backwaters.

    3.3 km · lake in India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Puttingal Temple

    Puttingal Temple is a Hindu temple in the coastal town of Paravur, India. The temple was founded after the presence of the goddess was experienced on an ant hill with Puttu being the Malayalam word for ant hill.

    3.5 km · Hindu temple in Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Thanni Beach

    Thanni Beach is a beach situated approximately 10 kilometers from Kollam City in Kerala, India. Situated beside the Kollam Coastal Road, the beach is also accessible from both Kollam Beach and Mayyanad via the Thanni Bridge, making it popular among locals and tourists alike.

    1.8 km · one of the important beach in Kerala · 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.

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Getting to Mayyanād

Airports
Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 50 km · Cochin (COK), 148 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 247 km
Stations
Paravur railway station, 3.5 km · Mayyanad railway station, 200 m
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Mayyanād
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · ₹405–500
  • Kochi → Mayyanād
    130 km · quickest by road, 3h 38m · ₹960–1,190
  • Coimbatore → Mayyanād
    244 km · quickest by road, 6h 31m · ₹2,130–2,660
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mayyanād

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom Varkala Railway Station, Taxis and Auto Rickshaws can be hired.

From Wikivoyage: Edava, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.

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

    6 ways of moving, 16 sources

    87 km
  2. 02
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    98 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    148 km
  4. 04
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    164 km
  5. 05
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    164 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mayyanād

Mayyanād is 8 km from Kollam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.