BEACHES:-
Kollam beach offers a full range of lives and activities and some of the most beautiful scenery imaginable. Kollam (Quilon) is a charming old port city on the banks of the picturesque Ashtamudi Lake. It is also known as the center of cashew industry. Traces of a once prosperous trade with China are still seen in the form of Chinese fishing nets, huge Chinese water pots, blue and white porcelain and sampan-like boats.
Varkala beach (also known as papanasam beach) is situated on the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram District.
Varkala beach:- is called Papanasam beach because it is believed that a dip in the water destroys all kind of sin. Hence, people prefer this shore for their offering of ?vavubali? in honour of ancestors and relatives whose souls are in rest. After the offering of ?vavubali?, people visit Sree Janardhana temple and get done ?Thilakahoma?, a pooja done for the sublimation of the departed souls.
Kovalam Beach is internationally renowned beach resort of Kerela has been a favorite haunt of tourists since the 1930s.