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A GREAT DESTINATION
Name
City
Access
Location
State
Best Time
Notes
Kovalam
Trivandrum
By bus/taxi from
16 km from Trivandrum
Trivandrum
Kerala
One of the most beautiful beaches in India.
Besides swimming, surfing, catamaran riding,
one can avail of the age-old ayurvedic mass-
age and oil bath.
Ezhimala
Cannanore
Rail from Bekal
76 km from Bekal
Kerala
Famous Portuguese fort on the beach.
Kanya
ku-
mari
Kanya ku-
mari
By bus/taxi/train
from Trivandrum
86 km from Trivandrum
Tamil Nadu
Throughout
the year
The beach landscape with sands of myriad
colour. The country's most beautiful sun rise,
sunset can be seen from here.
Marina
Madras
By bus/taxi
Tamil Nadu
Throughout
One of the longest beaches in the world. The
the year beach has a wide stretch of golden
sand that is over 11km.
Covelong
Madras
By bus/taxi from
38 km from Madras
Madras
Tamil Nadu
A fishing village with a beach en route to
Mahabalipuram. Good for a day's picnic.
Pulicat
Madras
by train or bus upto
61 km from Madras
Ennore
Tamil Nadu
The ruins of a Dutch fort and beach are main
attractions.
Elliots
Madras
By bus/taxi
11 km from Madras
Tamil Nadu
Bathing beach.
Ennore
Madras
By bus/taxi from
18 km from Madras
Madras
Tamil Nadu
Boating on the backwaters in local fishing
craft.
Mamalla-
-puram
Madras
By bus/taxi/train from
Madras
5 8 km from Madras
Tamil Nadu
Throughout
the year
A beautiful beach resort, also a marvellous
open-air museum of rock-cut caves & carvi
ngs monolithic structures and bas reliefs of
the Pallava Dynasty (6th C - lOthC).
Lawson
Bay
Vishaka pat-
nam
By road & air
from Hyderabad
Andhra
Pradesh
An attractive beach for swimming.
Pondicher
-ry Beach
Pondicherry
Direct train from
Madras. Good roads
connecting Pondycherry
to Madras, B’lore,
Chidambaram etc
160 km from Madras
Pondicherry
(U.T)
Aug - Mar
Popular for swimming and sun-bathing.
Corbyn's
Cove
Port Blair
By air & sea from
Calcutta & Madras
1,255 km from Calcutta
1,191 km from Madras
Andaman &
Nicobarls.
Sept - Oct
Picturesque beach ideal for swiming & diving.
North Bay
Port Blair
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»
A long & sandy beach
Kadmat
By ship & air
from Cochin
250-400 km from
Cochin
Lakshadweep
(U.T)
Throughtout the
year except mo-
nsoon June-July
Excellent for swimming and viewing under
water coral.
Bangaram
EAST
By air from Cochin to
460 km from Cochin
Agatti & then by fast
boat to Bangaram
Lakshadweep
coast
Throughout the
year except
during monsoon
June-July
Good-arrangements for boating , water skiing
and viewing underwatercoral.
Puri
Puri
By air or train from
62 km from Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar
Orissa
Nov - May
Excellent surf & shallow waters are great at-
tractions as well as sunrise & sunset on beach.
Gopalpur
Puri
By train from Berham-
18 km from Berhampur
pur
Orissa
Nov - May
Was a popular but now a decaying beach
resort.
Digha
By bus
250 km south of
W.Bengal
Calcutta
--
A calm & shallow sea.