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Pennukkara

Pennukkara is a small village situated about 5 km (3.1 mi) south of the town of Chengannur taluk of Alappuzha district, Kerala in India.

The place

Pennukkara is a small village situated about 5 km (3.1 mi) south of the town of Chengannur taluk of Alappuzha district, Kerala in India. Pennukkara is famous for its lagoons, Pond's and the Poomala Chal lake, & Natural heritages. The kerala's longest Canal Aquadate is situated at Pennukkara & Pennukkara is on the banks of Uttarappalli River ## Utharappalli_River also known as varattar locally. this river is a natural interlinking of Achankovil and Pampa rivers.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pennukkara

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
    Puliyur Mahavishnu Temple

    The Thripuliyoor Mahavishnu Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu and located in Puliyoor, Alappuzha District, Kerala, South India. Constructed in the Kerala style of architecture, the temple is glorified in the Nalayira Divya Prabandham, the early medieval Tamil canon of the Alvar saints from the 6th–9th centuries CE. It is one of the 108 Divya Desams dedicated to Vishnu, who is worshipped as Mayapiran/Thripuliyoorappan.

    3.8 km · building in India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    College of Engineering Chengannur

    The College of Engineering Chengannur commonly known as CEC, is an engineering institute in the state of Kerala, India, that was established by the Government of Kerala under the aegis of the Institute of Human Resources Development in 1993. The college is located in Chengannur, Alappuzha.

    3.9 km · college in Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Christian College, Chengannur

    Christian College, Chengannur is a government-aided college for higher education located at Angadickal Chengannur, Alappuzha district, Kerala, India. It was established in 1964 by Rt.

    2.9 km · public college 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.

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Getting to Pennukkara

Airports
Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 95 km · Cochin (COK), 99 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 200 km
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Pennukkara
    96 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · ₹730–920
  • Kochi → Pennukkara
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · ₹670–840
  • Coimbatore → Pennukkara
    195 km · quickest by road, 5h 22m · ₹1,800–2,250
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Pennukkara

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inTaxi and auto rickshaws were available all around.
  • Get inBuses and auto rickshaws are the most convenient mode of transportation.

From Wikivoyage: Chennithala, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2023-10.

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

    6 ways of moving, 16 sources

    62 km
  2. 02
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    70 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    106 km
  4. 04
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    121 km
  5. 05
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    122 km

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

Around it

Next door to Pennukkara

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

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