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My travel experience &cost details relating to Trivandrum trip - Hi all....u found this page as u r searching the details for trivandrum & sure that u'll get good info about the same... Let's start.... Reason for detail information: 1.Trying to give a feel of my experience.. 2.want to share the entire tour. Trivandrum is one of the pending place in my list, listed this place because of Padmanabhaswamy temple, Jatayu Earth's center & Aazhimala shiva temple....covered the trivandrum trip during Aug 15th long weekend.. as we plan for trips, decided to visit as a solo & booked train ticket from Chennai central(origin point for my trip) to Trivandrum contonment for a sleeper class on 18th July for 12th August/ MAS TVC express and WL81 though as a solo for name sake informed 2 r 3 friends regarding the trivandrum trip but not sure about the places &i'm also not sure whether i'm intended to cover Trivandrum or any of the place from karnataka, as no clarity this is one of the reason to book sleeper class...train [email protected],it's okay to take early permissions before long weekend.... and slowly the wait list reduced and came to RAC,those who r sure & planned they can book AC train "Tvc Ac Sf Exp"starts at 4pm and reaches trivandrum earlier than the earlier train....on the day of travel after chart preparation got the RAC seat... On 12th August took the half day permission.. started from the office without having lunch &reached the railway station & had lunch....Train has started,as the train started sat some 1/1.5hr and then found one opposite upper berth and had a nice small nap for 1/1.5hr sleep, as not sure about full berth....had dinner at salem,got the full berth at Coimbatore around 11pm.... Reached Trivandrum around 8am & enquired in the retiring room in railway station....got the single occupancy AC dormitory for a full day at Rs.400. After fresh-up & breakfast went to padmanabhaswamy temple by auto from Railway station to temple at a cost of Rs.40/around 2km & observed there is a main bus stand is opposite to the railway station...in between seen one more nice temple & noted to visit... bought the dhoti(mandatory for gents), wish to bought a sticker dhoti(Rs.500& Rs100 kanduva / kind of scarf) from long time but somehow bought@trivandrum. For ladies either they sould wear saree or wear dhoti above the chudidhar pant.... Had good dharshan,inside lord krishna, vinayagar, kshetra palak, vedha vyas temples etc are there to visit...thoroughly done one pradhusan/ round by observing the wall sculptures....took some snaps before changing the attire.. while coming enquired how to go to Aazhimala siva temple because it is only around 20kms from this temple...luckily got the additional/main information that there is prepaid auto counter in front of the main entrace of the temple for Rs.950 covered below places: 1.Attukal bagavathy temple (one of the famous temple for the festival Attukal pongala mahotsavam). 2.Parasurama swamy temple. 3.Poovar island --Back waters Rs.1500 for 1hr/rates will vary based on the no.of persons & boat organisation...there r many organisations running the boats...it will include few other things like elephant shaped rock & restuarants which will provide the both veg &non -veg especially sea food and resorts... Had lunch in a vegetarian restaurant as i don't eat non-veg on saturday in some random roadside medium restaurant,had [email protected]... 4.Aazhimala shiva temple & very good beach view ...must visit place in trivandrum, google it, definitely u'll add to ur list of places to visit in Trivandrum...ideal can be seen from 5.30am to 8pm,whereas temple will be in open between 5.30am to 11am & 5pm to 8pm 5.Harbour & Fish aquarium 6.Light house --nice view &wind.. especially kovalam beach view will be like cinematic from the light house... 7.Kovalam beach--Many restaurants, especially for sea food.... With this package ends,generally after the end of the kovalam beach they will drop u at ur desired location in trivandrum like ur hotel/railway stand...But requested below two places: 8.Pazhavangadi Ganapathi temple (one which is noted while going to padmanaba swamy temple in auto) 9.Valithura Beach...but not allowed inside the beach & bridge....returned to Railway station/retiring room without going inside the beach... Paid Rs.1100/- (though it is Rs.950/-)as a gratitude 😉.. Reached room around 7.30pm...took small break and went out at8/8.30 for dinner.."Aaryas park restuarant" vegetarian restaurant near to Railway station. Very good in quality,quantity &price...and observed there is a very small restaurant, which is selling small dosas (it"ll be half of kal dosa's which will be available in Tamilnadu). Enquired in bus stand for the buses to "Chadayamangalam",it's about 50km from Trivandrum railway station,One of the reason to postpone to 2nd day.. Had good sleep and to make sure to getup early for the next day mission. Day-2 Woke up and got ready by 6.30am. vacated the room and went to the bus stand & bus started at 6.45/7am & got the window seat😀😀,ticket price Rs69/-....reached "chadayamangalam"at 8am & most of road is two lanes only but the driver has not reduced his speed & not rash driving also,finest driving.... have u identified the place as "Jatayu Earth's center", it'll open only after 9.30am...so searching for good restaurant to have heavy breakfast as it is a hill &there r few adventure activities also available in this place....very few restaurant r available near bus stand & opposite to bus stand & towards our desired place found one restaurant...while entering itself have seen making of parota & wondered by seeing morning itself and i could see many of the customers r eating parotta & it is thin not thick....so without asking the menu ordered 3parotta & fish curry but fish curry is over so provided egg curry...till such time i haven't had that kind of parotta....very smooth & thin, no over masala in egg curry....i can say excellent & simply superb...bill amount Rs.48/- including one tea.. Took auto/Rs.50 to Jatayu Earth's center,it's around 2km from chadayamangalam bus stand...reached at9/9.15am...they will open only after 9.30am... started issuing tickets from 9.45am..entrance ticket was Rs.236/- & luggage bag has given in clock room...water /food will be available at the top of the hill...no eatables are allowed to carry at the top..there r cable car/Rs.263 r walkway ways to reach the top..but walkway is closed during that time..even adventure things also not available.. Very good view point & Jatayu sculpture.Lord rama's foot print also at the top. Please read the history of this place before going... From Chadayamangalam went to Munroe Island and had one hour boat riding...and went to kollam to catch a trivandrum bus..Reached trivandrm by 7pm.. Took irctc retiring dormitory for 24hrs. Day3 Morning went to padmanabhaswamy temple and took rest till 3pm. Boarded train at3pm in trivandrm to chennai central.... Happy &Safe journey🤗🤗