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Village in Kerala, India

Vennimala

Vennimala is a small village located in Puthuppally Grama Panchayath of the Kottayam district in Kerala.

The place

Vennimala is a small village located in Puthuppally Grama Panchayath of the Kottayam district in Kerala. Vennimala is 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) east of Kottayam. It lies between the towns of Western Kerala and the mountains of the Western Ghats. Vennimala was once a dense forest.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Vennimala

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
    Manarcad Church

    St. Mary's Syrian orthodox Cathedral, Manarcad, is cathedral located in Manarcad, about 9 km from the town of Kottayam in Kerala, India.

    4 km · church in Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Kottayam

    Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology or Government Engineering College, Kottayam is a state-government-owned engineering college in the Indian state of Kerala, located 14 km away from Kottayam. The college was founded in 1991 by the Government of Kerala, and has been affiliated with the APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University since the latter was founded in 2015.

    3.1 km · Government engineering college in Kerala · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Nilakkal St.Thomas Church

    Nilakkal St. Thomas Ecumenical Church is an ecumenical Christian church located in Angamoozhy, Kerala, India.

    3.4 km · Ecumenical church in Kerala · 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 Vennimala

Airports
Cochin (COK), 68 km · Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 126 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 170 km
  • Kochi → Vennimala
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · ₹475–590
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Vennimala
    126 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · ₹980–1,230
  • Coimbatore → Vennimala
    165 km · quickest by road, 4h 43m · ₹1,530–1,920
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Vennimala

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 Vennimala. 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

    63 km
  2. 02
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    66 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    84 km
  4. 04
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    96 km
  5. 05
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    99 km

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

Around it

Next door to Vennimala

Vennimala is 56 km from Kochi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.