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Pozhikara

Pozhikkara or Pozhikara is the Western border town of the Paravur municipality in the Kollam district of Kerala state in India.

Pozhikara
Pozhikara · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Pozhikkara or Pozhikara is the Western border town of the Paravur municipality in the Kollam district of Kerala state in India. It is located at the South-Western tip of Kollam's coastal area. It is in the Arabian Sea coast. Pozhikara is a heritage site in Kerala. Visitors, including foreign visitors come to Paravur and Pozhikara to see the estuary, backwaters and beaches. As per the 2018 study report by Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute(CMRFRI) of India, Pozhikkara beach is one of the 16 best-kept beaches in India, topper from the state of Kerala.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pozhikara

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.

    1.7 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.

    1.4 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.

    1.9 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 Pozhikara

Airports
Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 47 km · Cochin (COK), 152 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 250 km
Stations
Paravur railway station, 1.8 km · Mayyanad railway station, 3 km · Kappil Railway Station, 4.6 km
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Pozhikara
    24 km · quickest by road, 46 min · ₹190–235
  • Kochi → Pozhikara
    132 km · quickest by road, 3h 44m · ₹980–1,220
  • Coimbatore → Pozhikara
    300 km · quickest by road, 8h 16m · ₹2,700–3,370
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Pozhikara

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 Pozhikara. 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

    90 km
  2. 02
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    100 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    150 km
  4. 04
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    166 km
  5. 05
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    167 km

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

Around it

Next door to Pozhikara

Pozhikara is 11 km from Kollam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.