Palliyadi
Palliyadi is a panchayat town in Kanniyakumari district in Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Palliyadi is a panchayat town in Kanniyakumari district in Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Tamil is the official language spoken; It has been a centre of life for many centuries and have been predominantly occupied by wealthy aristocrat Christian Nadars and Nair families. The majority of the population is Christian. The town has produced leading intellectuals, administrators, Judges, IPS officers, IAS officers, MPs and MLAs who have served the country and have contributed substantially in the fields of politics, education, literature, art, poetry, socio-religious and social reformation. The town is home to some of the largest Rubber Estate barons and Plantation owners in the State. The leading land and revenue administrators, during the reign of the Travancore Kingdom where, based out of Palliyadi families. The nearest accessible station is the railway station that goes under the same name.
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Worth seeing in and around Palliyadi
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.
- 01Lourdes Mount College of Engineering & Technology
Anna University in Tamil Nadu, India has many affiliated institutions.
1.3 km · engineering college in Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, India · Wikipedia
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Getting to Palliyadi
- Airports
- Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 43 km · Cochin (COK), 229 km
- Thiruvananthapuram → Palliyadi41 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · ₹310–390
- Kochi → Palliyadi215 km · quickest by road, 5h 15m · ₹1,700–2,120
- Coimbatore → Palliyadi306 km · quickest by road, 8h 11m · ₹2,940–3,670
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No local-transport research exists yet for Palliyadi
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 Palliyadi. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get in{{go | name | url | address 8.410410 | long from Kovalam | phone | hours | wikipedia Neyyattinkarastation1.jpg | wikidata=Q15262230 | lastedit=2026-05-16 | content By bus By taxi By auto-rickshaw=== In an auto-rickshaw ₹150-170 (per head) is a fair price.
- Get inAdvice being if they are trying to rip you off go to leave for another rickshaw and they will often back down and offer you a fair price; if not, get in a different rickshaw.
- Get aroundThe rate should be around ₹15 per kilometre on auto rickshaw but some drivers may try to overcharge up to ₹100 for 1 km.
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Next door to Palliyadi
Palliyadi is 41 km from Thiruvananthapuram, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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