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Omallur

Omallur is a small town in Kerala, about 3.5 km south of Pathanamthitta District headquarters.

Omallur
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The place

Omallur is a small town in Kerala, about 3.5 km south of Pathanamthitta District headquarters. Omallur is famous for Vayal Vanibham, which is an annual farming fair held in the month of Meenam (October). People from both within and outside the town participate in the fair.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Omallur

10 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
    Rektha Kanda Swamy Temple

    Rakthakanda Swamy Temple, Omallur, Pathanamthitta District, known as "Omallur Temple" traces its history to the 8th century AD. It is a pilgrim centre on the way to Sabarimala from Pandalam, the birthplace of Sree Ayyappan. The Temple is famous for its annual festival of 10 days in the month of Medom of Malayalam Era.

    900 m · Hindu temple · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sree Bhuvaneswary Temple, Valamchuzhy

    Sree Bhuvaneswary Temple, Valamchuzy is one of the oldest temples in Pathanamthitta, South India.

    5.5 km · Hindu temple in Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Thumpamon Vadakkumnatha Temple

    Thumpamon Vadakkumnatha Temple is an ancient Lord Subhramanya temple near Pandalam in Pathanamthitta in Kerala, India. This temple has two Sreekovils.

    4.8 km · Hindu temple in Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Manjanikkara Dayara

    Manjanikkara Dayara is a monastery of the Syriac Orthodox Church in India. It is situated at the top of the hillock in Manjanikkara, near Omallur, Pathanamthitta District, in South Kerala.

    900 m · church in Omalloor · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Thrippara Shiva Kshetram

    Thrippara Shiva Kshetram is a famous Shiva temple in Vallicode village, Pathanamthitta District, Kerala, India. This temple is located on the banks of the Achankovil river.

    2.3 km · building in India · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Thattayil Orippurathu Bhagavathy Kshetram

    Orippurathu Bhagavathy Temple is a 1200 year old ancient Hindu temple in Thattayil, near Adoor in Pathanamthitta in Kerala. It is one of the most famous Bhagavathi temples in Central Travancore.

    4.4 km · Hindu temple in Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Catholicate College Pathanamthitta

    Catholicate College, Pathanamthitta, established in 1952, is an institution of higher education at Pathanamthitta of Kerala, India. Catholicate College belongs to the first group of colleges in Kerala to receive academic accreditation from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council.

    3.5 km · college in Kerala · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St. George Orthodox Church, Chandanapally

    St. George Orthodox Church, Chandanapally, also known as Chandanapally Valiyapally, is a prominent parish of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, located in the village of Chandanapally in Pathanamthitta district, Kerala, India.

    4.9 km · church · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Thazhoor Bhagavathy Kshetram

    Thazhoor Bhagavathy Kshetram is a 300-year-old Hindu temple on the banks of the Achankovil river in Vazhamuttom, Pathanamthitta District in Kerala. The Devi is the main deity here.

    3.7 km · Hindu temple in India · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Thrikkovil Sree Padmanabha Swami Kshetram

    Thrikkovil Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple is a Hindu temple with Lord Vishnu as the presiding deity, located at Vallicode village in Pathanamthitta District in Kerala, India. The temple is maintained by the Travancore Devaswom Board.

    2.8 km · building in India · Wikipedia

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Getting to Omallur

Airports
Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 87 km · Cochin (COK), 108 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 201 km
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Omallur
    87 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · ₹670–840
  • Kochi → Omallur
    16 km · quickest by road, 49 min · ₹155–195
  • Coimbatore → Omallur
    126 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · ₹1,150–1,440
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Omallur

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundAutorickshaw - this is a cheap way of travelling between attractions.
  • Get aroundShare taxis are also common, to cater pilgrims.

From Wikivoyage: Pathanamthitta, 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

    50 km
  2. 02
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    59 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    102 km
  4. 04
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    118 km
  5. 05
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    118 km

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

Around it

Next door to Omallur

Omallur is 45 km from Kollam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Kumbazhavillage in Pathanamthitta District, Kerala, India5.4 km
  • Vazhamuttomvillage in Pathanamthitta District, Kerala, India4.1 km