Kovalam Sight Seeing

Kovalam Sightseeing

This is a city where you can relax yourselves at the beach in the evenings and also enjoy the culture of Kerala during the day time. Also do note the climate here in the afternoon is not very pleasant. It is hot during the day time.

1. Padmanaswami Temple

Our first tourist spot was Padmanaswami Temple. Recently, this temple was in news as tons of Gold was found here, so we were excited to visit this temple.

In this temple, the men are not allowed to wear pants and their shirts, they have to wear Lungi’s and remove their shirts. Even females need to cover themselves in a sari like cloth. Temple trust provides such things at minimal rent. Please do not take your mobile phones, glares, cameras etc while visiting this temple. You can drop such things with your driver. Temple trust people charge you separately depositing such things for example: camera Rs25, sunglasses Rs 10 etc so finally your bill will be too high.

Once you enter this temple, you will get the feeling as if you are at the set of some historic Hindi Movies. Soon you will recollect movies like Jodha Akbar. I must admit here that temples in South India are made in an amazing way. They are so big that you cannot see the person standing at the other end. I have noticed that South Indian temples always have four doors according to the direction and they also name them in the same manner. We did offer some Pooja at the temple and enjoyed the sculptures there. The temple is worth visiting.

2. Science Centre

After the temple we visited a Science Centre. Here we saw few basics of Physics, Biology. It was a very big centre and we did not have time to visit that completely. However, it was something similar to Nehru Planetarium in Mumbai. Here we also saw a 15 min movie in a 4D theater. It was fun. In 4D your seats start moving; you feel the water splash and also the bubbles. People going with kids to Kovalam must visit here. It is not very expensive also.

3. Poovar Island

To visit this beautiful island one needs to go via boat. The charges are approximately Rs 700- 800 per couple. There are various places from where one can start this boat ride; however, they offer similar rates. They will try their best to convince you to take a 2 hour boat ride, but one hour ride is enough. We took a one hour ride and it took us from the midst of the mangroves to an island. Here you can see the famous Poovar Island Resort and take some snaps in the soft sands of the island. Also do not forget to enjoy the scenic and most important thing out here; the meeting of ocean and lake. Yes there is a visible color difference and you can actually see the waters merging. 

4. Fishermen’s Routine  

Now this is no special tourist spot but we did see this activity right from our hotel. So if your hotel is at the beach side or you visit the beach early in the morning you might get a chance to check out the routine of fishermen. One gets to see how the fishes and other aquatic animals are auctioned.