Varkala is the latest hot-spot travel destination in
Kerala, and is well known for its landscape beauty and its beach. Varkala is
also a famous Hindu pilgrimage center and the final resting place of Sree
Narayana Guru, the great social reformer.
When Kovalam was discovered by charter flight
operators, back packers moved on to this fishing village. Mineral
springs gush out of the dramatic red laterite cliff face at the
northern end of the beach. The teachings of the hilltop temple guru
brought Mahatma Gandhi to this beach famed for its natural therapies