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Scenic view at Thottiyodu, on the Nagercoil-Thiruvananthapuram highway
Muttom, a coastal village, is another popular place with tourists. The terrain in this village and its surroundings is hilly and from a height one can see an idyllic view of the place, with a Portuguese style church standing in the middle of the village. The beach-area is somewhat rocky. There is also a 100-year old lighthouse. The lighthouse, though near the sea, is situated on a land mass some 105 feet above sea level. The lighthouse originally came up here in olden days, because of the presence of a huge rock, near Muttom called 'Crocodile Rock'. The floors of the lighthouse have lot of holes as for architecture aesthetic and it will be scary for some to reach the top. Another attractive feature of this area, is a ravine-like area with reddish earth (soil) and casurina trees near the sea-side. This place with very popular with Tamil and Keralite film-makers.
Sanguthurai Beach, about 8 km from Nagercoil is a palm-fringed and sandy beach. Sothavilai Beach is another good beach, about 7 km from the heart of town. Both beaches were hit by the Indian Ocean Tsunami, but authorities have taken steps to improve facilities again. There is a very good lagoon (estuary - place where the river meets the sea) at Manakudy - 10 km from the town.
Panchappathis, the five holyplaces of Ayyavazhi, all situated within 20 km circle from Kanyakumari

Fresh water supply to the town is from the Mukkadal Reservoir, about 8 km from the town, in the interior - itself a very scenic place, with a small bushy island in the middle of the dam. The dam is surrounded by hills of the Western Ghats.
Madhavalayam is the small Muslim village and it has very ancient historic values and most of the people doesn't know much about it. During king rule the horse force of the king was camped in the place. And there is a special road from Madhavalayam to Thovalai (Special for flowers) arranged to train the horse force. It is the only village having a mosque builted on the highest rock about 200 feet height approximately. And 'Muthumakal thazhi' found in the village and it proves that the village got ancient historic values.

Outer to the city is Parvathipuram, a scenic location, where one can enjoy a full view of the Western Ghats, and lush green paddy fields and banana plantations. The Anandhanaaru kalvoy (canal) flows through Parvathipuram. This canal brings water for irrigation to the farmlands nearby. It finally ends into the Thengapattinam estuary in the Arabian sea.

There is a Lord Ayyappa temple near Marthandam at the banks of Kuzhithurai River.


Vedisasthan Kovil

This temple is known as either "Vettuvenni temple" or "Vedisasthan Kovil". The latter one due to the fire cracker being burst at the temple as mark of prayer to Lord Ayyappa. This temple is just by the side of National Highway NH-47 connecting Thiruvananthapuram with Nagercoil.