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Vettoor

Vettoor is a panchayat in Varkala Taluk of Trivandrum district in the state of Kerala, India.

The place

Vettoor is a panchayat in Varkala Taluk of Trivandrum district in the state of Kerala, India. It is situated 2.8km southwest of Varkala City and 38km northwest of capital city Trivandrum.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Vettoor

2 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
    Sarada Mutt

    Sivagiri is an area in Varkala Municipality of Thiruvananthapuram district in Kerala. It is a pilgrimage centre of Varkala Town where the tomb, or samadhi, of Sree Narayana Guru is situated.

    2.8 km · Hindu temple in India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sreenarayanapuram Temple

    Sreenarayanapuram Mahavishnu Temple is an ancient Vishnu temple in Kerala, India. It is at Manakala about 4 km from Adoor.

    3.9 km · Hindu temple 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 Vettoor

Airports
Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 33 km · Cochin (COK), 164 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 259 km
Stations
Varkala Sivagiri railway station, 3.5 km · Akathumuri railway station, 2.5 km
  • Kochi → Vettoor
    145 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · ₹1,080–1,350
  • Coimbatore → Vettoor
    256 km · quickest by road, 6h 59m · ₹2,250–2,810
  • Calicut → Vettoor
    300 km · quickest by road, 7h 29m · ₹2,190–2,740
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Vettoor

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 Vettoor. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom Varkala Railway Station, taxis and auto rickshaws can be hired.
  • Get inPapanasam Beach is around 5 km from Varkala Railway Station ₹40/₹50 by Auto Rickshaw).
  • Get aroundThe town of Varkala is about 5 km inland, centered around the train station, and can be reached via autorickshaw for ₹80 The resort area lies along two cliffs, north and south, overlooking the beach areas.
  • Go nextKollam - about an hour north by taxi, an easy half-day trip to take a boat ride on the backwaters.

From Wikivoyage: Varkala, 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

    92 km
  2. 02
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    104 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    156 km
  4. 04
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    172 km
  5. 05
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    173 km

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

Around it

Next door to Vettoor

Vettoor is 25 km from Kollam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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