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Sivagiri, Kerala

Sivagiri is an area in Varkala Municipality of Thiruvananthapuram district in Kerala.

Sivagiri, Kerala
Sivagiri, Kerala · Shagil Kannur
The place

Sivagiri is an area in Varkala Municipality of Thiruvananthapuram district in Kerala. It is a pilgrimage centre of Varkala Town where the tomb, or samadhi, of Sree Narayana Guru is situated. It is a place where Guru built the Sarada Temple dedicated to Sarada Devi. The tomb is an attraction for thousands of devotees every year, especially during the Sivagiri Pilgrimage days from 30 December to 1 January.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sivagiri, Kerala

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
    Varkala Beach

    Varkala Beach is situated in the town of Varkala in Varkala Municipality, Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala, India. The beach skirts the Arabian Sea, part of the Indian Ocean.

    3 km · cliff beach in Trivandrum, Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Janardanaswamy Temple

    The Janardanaswamy Temple, also known as the Varkala Temple, is a Hindu temple situated in Janardhanapuram, Varkala city, Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala, India. The temple is dedicated to the worship of deity Vishnu in the form of Janardanaswamy, locally known as Varkaleswara.

    2.6 km · building in India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Sarada Mutt

    Sivagiri is an area in Varkala Municipality of Thiruvananthapuram district in Kerala. It is a pilgrimage centre of Varkala Town where the tomb, or samadhi, of Sree Narayana Guru is situated.

    100 m · Hindu temple in India · Wikipedia

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Getting to Sivagiri, Kerala

Airports
Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 35 km · Cochin (COK), 161 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 257 km
Stations
Varkala Sivagiri railway station, 1 km
  • Kochi → Sivagiri, Kerala
    144 km · quickest by road, 5h 26m · ₹1,550–1,930
  • Coimbatore → Sivagiri, Kerala
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · ₹670–840
  • Calicut → Sivagiri, Kerala
    278 km · quickest by road, 9h 8m · ₹2,820–3,530
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sivagiri, Kerala

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 Sivagiri, Kerala. 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.
  • Get inPapanasam Beach is around 5 km from Varkala Railway Station ₹40/₹50 by Auto Rickshaw).
  • Get aroundThe town of Varkala is about 5 km inland, centered around the train station, and can be reached via autorickshaw for ₹80 The resort area lies along two cliffs, north and south, overlooking the beach areas.
  • Go nextKollam - about an hour north by taxi, an easy half-day trip to take a boat ride on the backwaters.

From Wikivoyage: Varkala, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

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

    6 ways of moving, 16 sources

    91 km
  2. 02
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    102 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    154 km
  4. 04
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    171 km
  5. 05
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    172 km

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

Around it

Next door to Sivagiri, Kerala

Sivagiri, Kerala is 23 km from Kollam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.