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Valamchuzhy

Valamchuzy is a village in the banks of Achankovil river in Pathanamthitta district, Kerala, India.

The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Sree 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
  2. 02
    Madathilkkavu 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
  3. 03
    Catholicate 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 → Valamchuzhy
    87 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · ₹720–890
  • Kochi → Valamchuzhy
    96 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · ₹780–980
  • Coimbatore → Valamchuzhy
    195 km · quickest by road, 5h 40m · ₹1,870–2,330
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundAutorickshaw - this is a cheap way of travelling between attractions.
  • Get aroundShare taxis are also common, to cater pilgrims.

From Wikivoyage: Pathanamthitta, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.

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

    6 ways of moving, 16 sources

    45 km
  2. 02
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    54 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    98 km
  4. 04
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    114 km
  5. 05
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    114 km

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

Around it

Next door to Valamchuzhy

Valamchuzhy is 48 km from Kollam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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