Vakathanam
Vakathanam is a Panchayat in Kottayam district of Kerala, India.

Vakathanam is a Panchayat in Kottayam district of Kerala, India. It is 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) from Kottayam. Vakathanam panchayat consists of two villages: Vakathanam and Thottakkad.
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Worth seeing in and around Vakathanam
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.
- 01Panachikkadu Temple
The Panachikkadu Temple or Panachikkad Saraswathi Temple, also known as the Dakshina Mookambika Saraswathy Temple, is a Hindu temple dedicated to the goddess Saraswati. The temple is located in the southern region of the Indian Peninsula, in Panachikkad in Kottayam District, Kerala, India.
3.4 km · Hindu temple in Kerala, India · Wikipedia - 02Morkulangara Devi Temple
Morkulangara Devi Temple is a famous Hindu temple in the Kottayam District of Kerala state in India. The presiding deity is Bhagavathy.
2.1 km · Hindu temple · Wikipedia - 03St. George Orthodox Church, Puthuppally
St.George Orthodox Church Puthuppally is a prominent church that belongs to the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. This church is situated beside the Puthuppally - Changanassery road about a kilometre from the Puthuppally junction, on the eastern bank of the Kodoor river.
3.8 km · building in India · Wikipedia
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Getting to Vakathanam
- Airports
- Cochin (COK), 73 km · Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 121 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 176 km
- Kochi → Vakathanam58 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · ₹510–640
- Thiruvananthapuram → Vakathanam122 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · ₹920–1,150
- Coimbatore → Vakathanam171 km · quickest by road, 4h 48m · ₹1,620–2,020
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Vakathanam
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 Vakathanam. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrequent ferries (run by the Kerala State Water Transport Corporation) from Alappuzha (Alleppey) run throughout the day.
- Get aroundLocal taxis are also available, though they are considerably more expensive than autorickshaws.
From Wikivoyage: Kottayam, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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Next door to Vakathanam
Vakathanam is 58 km from Kochi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Panachikkadvillage in Kottayam District, Kerala, India3.9 km
- Thottakaduvillage in Kottayam District, Kerala, India2.5 km
- Eravinalloorvillage in Kottayam District, Kerala, India3.4 km
- Kuzhimattomvillage in Kottayam District, Kerala, India3.9 km
- Pathamuttamvillage in Kottayam District, Kerala, India3 km
- Kadamuri Narasimhaswamy Temple, Kadamurihuman settlement in India1.8 km