Beaches - Kovalam Beach in Kerala

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State	Kerala

City	Kovalam

Airport-Nearest airport Trivandrum

Distance from Airport	15 Km/10 Miles

Railway Junctions	Trivandrum

Local Languages	Malayalam

Kovalam Transport

Air: Thiruvananthapuram is an international airport. It is 20 minutes by road from Kovalam. Daily flights connect Thiruvananthapuram to Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai while flights to Bangalore operate on all days except Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Direct flights operate from Thiruvananthapuram to Dubai, Abudhabi, Bahrain, Muscat, Saudi Arabia, Singapore Male and Sri Lanka. Chartered flights arrive from the European countries in this airport during the tourist season.

Air India, Indian Airlines, Jet Air, Air Lanka, Silk Air, Oman Air, Gulf Air, Kuwait Airways and Qatar Airways operate to and fro Thiruvananthapuram.

Rail: Thiruvananthapuram is the nearest railway station The railway line connects all the main towns in Kerala and the major cities in India. For over-night and long distance trains, you have to book tickets in advance. For the rest, you need to hire tickets at the time of the journey only.

Road : A journey from the capital city, Thiruvananthapuram, would take 20 minutes. The bus station is at Thampanoor. The city is 4 1/2 and 9 1/2 hours away from Kochi and Kozhikode respectively, reachable by rail or road.

Reaching Kovalam: From Thiruvananthapuram it is better to hire a taxi or an auto-rickshaw to go to Kovalam. Both the domestic and international air terminals, located adjacent to each other in the same premises, have official taxi kiosks close to the exit of the airport. You can order a prepaid taxi while inside the airport which will save you from the hassles of bickering with the drivers. The taxi service will cost you Rs. 200-225 for the 16 km journey. A journey by the auto-rickshaw may cost Rs 100. Or you can take a bus to East Fort, the nerve centre of the city's transport and take another one to Kovalam from there. The journey will cost you Rs.6.