Valamchuzhy
Valamchuzy is a village in the banks of Achankovil river in Pathanamthitta district, Kerala, India.
Valamchuzy is a village in the banks of Achankovil river in Pathanamthitta district, Kerala, India. It is in Pramadaom Grama Panchayat of Konni Taluk. The name comes because of the Shri Bhuvaneswari temple which was surrounded by Achankovil river. valam + chuzhy = valamchuzhy which indicates the flow of Achankovil river around the Temple. Most of the villagers are farmers.
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Worth seeing in and around Valamchuzhy
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.
- 01Sree Bhuvaneswary Temple, Valamchuzhy
Sree Bhuvaneswary Temple, Valamchuzy is one of the oldest temples in Pathanamthitta, South India.
600 m · Hindu temple in Kerala, India · Wikipedia - 02Madathilkkavu Devi Temple
Kunnamthanam is a census village in Kunnamthanam gram panchayat in the Mallapally taluk of the district of Pathanamthitta in Kerala.It comes under Thiruvalla Revenue Division & Thiruvalla Constituency.As of 2011, it had a population of 20,573. Kunnamthanam has been named a Complete Yoga Village, where every family is known to be practicing yoga.
2.3 km · Hindu Temple in Pathanamthitta district, Kerala · Wikipedia - 03Catholicate College Pathanamthitta
Catholicate College, Pathanamthitta, established in 1952, is an institution of higher education at Pathanamthitta of Kerala, India. Catholicate College belongs to the first group of colleges in Kerala to receive academic accreditation from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council.
1.5 km · college in Kerala · Wikipedia
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Getting to Valamchuzhy
- Airports
- Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 88 km · Cochin (COK), 108 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 198 km
- Thiruvananthapuram → Valamchuzhy87 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · ₹720–890
- Kochi → Valamchuzhy96 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · ₹780–980
- Coimbatore → Valamchuzhy195 km · quickest by road, 5h 40m · ₹1,870–2,330
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No local-transport research exists yet for Valamchuzhy
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 Valamchuzhy. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundAutorickshaw - this is a cheap way of travelling between attractions.
- Get aroundShare taxis are also common, to cater pilgrims.
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Valamchuzhy is 48 km from Kollam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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