India Travel Guide

Related Travel Information

Kannyakumari (Cape comorin) : Tamil Nadu

Cape comorin is the land's end of india. There is nothing between there and antarctica but water. Three bodies of water meet at cape comorin (kannyakumari): the arabian sea, the gulf of bengal and the indian ocean. The sun rises out of the raw sea the whole year round, and in winter sets in the windy and often stormy sea. It is a popular destination with indian tourists and pilgrims, who don't come to see the different coloured sand, but to visit the vivekananda memorial.

Accommodation : Kannyakumari

There are many lodges and hotels in walking distance of the bus terminal (the railway station is in the suburbs). If you want a room with a view of the cape, then you should go to one of the mostly clean, new, multi-storey hotels which are only a little more expensive than some of the rundown, old lodges, where you will only have a view of someone's backyard. Of course, the rooms with a view of the cape are the ones which fill up first. The 24 hour system operates in kannyakumari, and (he double rooms are very small. Every

Sightseeing : Kannyakumari

On an island south-east of the cape is the main attraction of kan-nyakumari: the vivekananda rock memorial. It was built in 1970 in honour of swami vivekananda. Boats go to the island between 7-1 lam and 2-5pm (cost 3rs), but not in bad weather. Photography is prohibited on the island as well as on the journey across. Gandhi memorial: the ashes of mahatma gandhi were stored here before they were scattered on the ocean. The memorial was built so that on the 2nd october (his birthday) the rays of the sun fall on the place where his ashes once rested. Also worth

Trivandrum : By Rail

"Irect Connections To Bangalore, Bombay, Madras, New Delhi, Howrah (Calcutta), Etc, And Naturally Kannyakumari.

Rameswaram : By bus

Buses leave mandapam for madurai at 2.10am, 4.05am and 10pm; for madras at 5.30pm and 7pm; and for kannyakumari at 4am, 8.30am, 1.45pm, 5.15pm and 10pm.