Kovalam houses three adjacent crescent beaches and earns itself as an internationally renoqwned beach. A massive rocky promontory on the beach has created a beautiful bay of calm waters ideal for sea bathing. It offers diverse range of leisure options for tourists to enjoy such as Sunbathing, herbal body toning massages, swimming, , special cultural events and catamaran cruising. The tropical sun acts so fast that one can see the faint blush of coppery tan on the skin in a matter of minutes. Life on the beach begins late in the day and carries on well into the night. The beach houses a string of budget cottages, Ayurvedic health resorts, Yoga and Ayurvedic massage centres, convention facilities, shopping zones, swimming pools.
Accommodation facilities for tourists at Kovalam range from five star hotels to budget hotels and the choice of food available at restaurants and cafeterias range from Continental varieties to South Indian delicacies.
Kovalam is just at a distance of 16 KM from the capital city of kerala that is Thiruvananthapuram. The city of Thiruvananthapuram has a lot of interesting attractions to see like the Napier Museum, the magnificent Padmanabhaswamy Temple ,the Sri Chitra Art Gallery. The SMSM Institute, a State owned handicrafts emporium, is the ideal place to pick up ethnic curios and other articles.
