Scrapbook from Kanyakumari

This post was long overdue. We visited Kanyakumari (and Kovalam Beach) during the second week of October 2008. Let this be a picturesque post.

Vivekananda Memorial Rock and the Thiruvalluvar Statue

Vivekananda Memorial Rock as we approach it on a launch

On the Vivekananda Memorial Rock

Immaculately polished Granite Elephants (4 tonne each!!) on Vivekananda Memorial Rock

Vivekananda Memorial Rock at Night

Gandhi Mandapam - the last remains of the Mahatma was kept here

The grandeur of Padmanabhapuram Palace

Rows of Coconut trees in the Kovalam Beach

God's Own country - at Kovalam Beach

Clouds kissing the hills at God's Own Country