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Vakathanam

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

Vakathanam
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Panachikkadu 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
  2. 02
    Morkulangara 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
  3. 03
    St. 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

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 Vakathanam

Airports
Cochin (COK), 73 km · Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 121 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 176 km
  • Kochi → Vakathanam
    58 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · ₹510–640
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Vakathanam
    122 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · ₹920–1,150
  • Coimbatore → Vakathanam
    171 km · quickest by road, 4h 48m · ₹1,620–2,020
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    6 ways of moving, 16 sources

    65 km
  2. 02
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    68 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    90 km
  4. 04
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    102 km
  5. 05
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    105 km

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

Around it

Next door to Vakathanam

Vakathanam is 58 km from Kochi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.