Kanyakumari Trip

It was my first trip to the southern most reaches of my country. We went to kanyakumari, the southern tip of India. Its famous for the confluence of the three mighty seas, the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal & the Indian Ocean. We can see the three different coloured waters from the three seas meeting there at the tip . I however did see two different colors there. Another typical thing about the kanyakumari beach is that you can see both the sunrise and sunset in sea from here. If you get lucky i.e. its not cloudy you might be able to see the change of colors of the sea water during the sunrise or the sunset. To reach kanyakumari from chennai you can get a train to nagarkoil and then catch a bus to kanyakumari which is just 18 kms from there. The bus will drop you at a stone throw distance from the beach. Nagarcoil is not a very big town, so I would suggest you get your major supplies from chennai. While coming back from kanyakumari to nagarcoil, our driver promised to show us a few places on the way, i.e. a mountain called Sanjeevani parvat (Actually its a part that fell off the mountain that Lord Hanuman carried to the battlefield in Lanka. For furthur details, please refer to Ramayana, the hindu epic). He also took us to a beautiful temple which was associated with multiple gods, including the trinity - Vishnu, Brahma and Mahesh. There was a scripture depicting The three Gods in one statue, implying the oneness of all gods. You must be curious to see a picture of that one, but sadly cameras and even T-shirts were not allowed inside the temple.

Apart from that, a very beautiful shrine is currently being built for the great poet Thiruvalluvar , composer of The Epic Thrukkural. A huge statue of Shree Thiruvalluvar stands atop an island in the middle of the sea providing a scenic view.


You can also visit a few waterfalls around the area. Chaitraalam is one of those. There is another lovely waterfall in neighbouring Kerala which I found best among the three falls. Sorry, I dont remember its name now.

To visit these falls you need to get to thiruvenvellai from naagarcoil and then reach ten-kaasi. From ten-kaasi you get cabs to go to the waterfalls.