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Kumarakom City Tour Guide | Kumarakom Travel Info

Kumarakom

Kottaym falls around Kumarakom. It is one place where you can see churches that would be around more than 700 years old. There is St Mary’s church that was built 355 AD.

Then there is also the Siva temple with beautiful engravings and magnificent architecture.

It is a must visit for people who come here from outside India Kumarakom City Tour Guide.

Erumely is an important religious place around Kumarakom.

Aranmula is 50 kms from Kottyam, and also the location for the magnificent Onam boat festival Kumarakom City Tour Guide.

It is an occasion to watch as there are processions by elephants Kumarakom Travel Info.

An enchanting picnic spot not too far away from Trivandrum, Kumarakom is a backwater tourism destination, where one can boat, fish and just watch the Kerala countryside Kumarakom City Tour Guide.

Kumarakom on the Vembanad Lake is fascinating Kumarakom City Tour Guide.

Interspersed with lush green mangrove forests, paddy fields that stretch out far into the horizon and rows and rows of coconut palms that criss-cross the backwater canals, the little village of Kumarakom is in reality a group of small islands Kumarakom City Tour Guide.

Kumarakom is part of Kerala's rice bowl, the Kuttanad region and is ideal for backwater cruises.

A beautiful backwater spot within hailing distance of Kumarakom is the 14-acre bird sanctuary on the eastern banks of the Vembanad Lake.

The sanctuary named after the village is a favorite haunt of migratory birds. There are egrets, darters, herons, teals, waterfowls, cuckoos, wild ducks and Siberian storks.

The best way to watch the birds in the Kumarakom sanctuary is a boat trip round the islands Kumarakom Travel Info.

A boat ride into the countryside can offer a close look at the life in the villages Kumarakom Travel Info.

There are fishermen in their small boats looking for fish while the women, neck-deep in water, search for the shy but tasty Karimeen fish with their feet Kumarakom Travel Info.

Or you could stay awake at night when fishermen glide over the dark waters with a flaming torch in their left hand and a net in their right. The fish, attracted by the light, are scooped up in the net Kumarakom Travel Info.

One can cruise down the Kumarakom backwaters in houseboats, which have a living room, a bedroom, a bath and a private sit-out for passengers Kumarakom Travel Info.

A number of these houseboats are joined together to become boat trains to facilitate larger groups of visitors.

Reaching Kumarakom: The best way to reach Kumarakom is by boat Kumarakom Travel Info.

Reach Quilon or Kollam, just an hour away from Trivandrum and then take the regular ferry service through the backwaters to Alleppey from where Kumarakom is just a short distance away Kumarakom Travel Info.

The way to Kumarakom is through the Muhamma Boat Jetty, which is around 170 km from the Trivandrum International Airport. By railways, take a train to Kottayam, which is only 16 km by road.

The other way is through Cochin, from where one must take a south-bound train to Chertala on the route to Alleppey. Chertala is 14 km away fromKumarakom Travel Info.

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