Rameswaram
Rameswaram is a town in the Ramanathapuram district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Rameswaram is a town in the Ramanathapuram district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is situated on the Pamban Island, separated from mainland India by the Pamban channel and is about 40 kilometres (25 mi) from Mannar Island, Sri Lanka, across the Gulf of Mannar. Rameswaram has been administered by a municipal body since 1994. It covers 53 km² and hosts a population of 44,856 as per the 2011 Census of India. Tourism and fishing are the primary sources of employment for its residents.
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Worth seeing in and around Rameswaram
2 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.
- 01Ramanathaswamy Temple
Ramanathaswamy Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva located on Rameswaram island in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is one of the twelve Jyotirlinga temples.
500 m · Hindu temple in Rameswaram island in the state of Tamil Nadu, India · Wikipedia - 02Gurudwara Guru Nanak Dham
Gurudwara Guru Nanak Dham is a gurdwara situated in the town of Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, India. The gurdwara was constructed to commemorate the visit of the first Sikh guru, Guru Nanak, to Rameswaram in about 1511.
100 m · Gurdwara inTamilnadu at Rameshwaram · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Sri Ramanathaswamy Temple
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Things to do
Glass boat ride at Pamban Bridge. There is one glass boat at the government boating centre on the other end of the bridge. That boat too is not in order, as water has entered between the two layers of glass through which you are supposed to see the corals. The boatman will tell you that the glass is not in order only when you reach the point where you are supposed to see the corals.
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Getting to Rameswaram
- Airports
- Jaffna (JAF), 100 km · Tiruchirappalli (TRZ), 176 km · Bandaranaike International Colombo (CMB), 243 km
- Stations
- Rameswaram railway station, 1 km
- Tiruchirappalli → Rameswaram183 km · quickest by road, 4h 9m · ₹1,500–1,880
- Thiruvananthapuram → Rameswaram275 km · quickest by road, 6h 40m · ₹2,370–2,970
- Coimbatore → Rameswaram320 km · quickest by road, 7h 12m · ₹2,540–3,170
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Rameswaram
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 Rameswaram. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inPoint-to-Point services, Tourist taxis, auto/cycle rickshaws and horse carts are also available.
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