Kanyakumari Resorts is located in Kanyakumari (Chothavilai) beach. Kanyakumari beach Resorts is located at the distance of about 10 km from Kanyakumari. Chothavilai beach (Kanyakumari) is one of the best natural beaches of the Kanyakumari district. Kanyakumari beach (Chothavilai) has shallow water and High sand dunes on the background.
Kanyakumari is adjacent to Kerala, so the eating joints here serve authentic traditional Kerala cuisine. Visit the beautiful coastal city and sample the distinctive cuisines, flavours and aromas. Binge on!
List of popular food joints in Kanyakumari:
AVE Restaurant: Famous for crispy and aromatic South Indian snacks and meals
Hotel Saravan : Known for Paper Dosas. Also serves south Indian, Gujarati, Chinese and Rajasthani vegetarian dishes
Palace Hotel : Serves delicious cheap meals
Hotel Anand or Ramdev Restaurant: Mouth-watering north Indian Thali and poori-bhaji
Manickhan Tourist Home : Toothsome non-veg dishes
Special Menus of Kanyakumari:
* Meen Kolambu (Main Course)
* Avial (Vegetable Course)
* Coconut Rice
* Valakkai Porial (Vegetable Course)
* Semiya Payaasam (Dessert)
The Chaitra Purnima Festival (the April full-moon day, celebrated in the first week of May), Navratri (last week of October), and the Holy Annual Festival of the Roman Catholic Church (fourth week of December) are the notable festivals celebrated in Kanyakumari.
Recipe of Avial
Ingredient Name
Unit
Quantity
Beans
number
8
Bitter Gourd
number
1
Carrots
number
1-2
Coconut grated
cup
1
Coconut Oil
tsp
1
Cumin seeds
tsp
1
Curd
cup
1
Curry Leaves
to taste
Drumsticks
number
1
Green Chillies
number
3-4
Plantain
number
1
Potato
number
1
Salt
to taste
Yam
piece
Directions | How to make Avial
Cut all the vegetables mentioned above in long pieces (not too long but reasonable) and cook it in the cooker with little bit of water and turmeric powder. Don't overcook it, one whistle is enough.
Grind the grated coconut with jeera & green chillies in the mixy.
Mix the cooked vegetables and the grinded ones in a vessel and boil for few minutes, while it is getting boiled add few curry leaves and salt as per taste and boil for 3 or 5 min. Stir in between, not too often.
After some time add the curd and mix it together and take it out of the stove or gas. Once the curd is added don't keep the avial in the stove for more than a min.
Once it is taken out add the coconut oil and mix well. And keep it closed.
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Sporting some of the finest beaches of South India, Tamil Nadu's capital Chennai has a long seafront including the very popular 12-km stretch of Marina beach. Rameshwaram, a major pilgrimage centre for Hindus, is famous as the place where Lord Rama offered thanks to Lord Shiva and its Ramnathaswami Temple is one of the most important temples in southern India. The calm and serene sea, rare sea species, coral reefs, multitude of marine life such as algae, sea cucumber, crabs, starfish, sponges and sea cows, dolphins and shallow waters mark Rameshwaram beach are found. This beach is ideal for sunbathing and swimming day and night and watch dolphins frolicking in the waters.
Covelong is another nice beach and also a small quaint fishing settlement separated from the mainland by the canal running from Chennai to Mahabalipuram. It offers wind surfing and swimming facilities along with visits to an ancient catholic church, a mosque and the Fort. Elliot's beach is lined with fast food joints, shrines and souvenir stalls and is a popular destination among the younger hearts. An excellent point for those seeking solitude and peace. Other popular beaches of Tamil Nadu are Chunnambar Beach, Pichavaram Beach and Poompuhar Beach. Here, we are going to discuss one of the most popular Tamil Nadu beach:
Kanyakumari Beach
Kanyakumari beachis the perfect place to see both sunrise and sunset.Kanyakumari sunrise and sunsetview point is build by the government to see the breath taking views in the sky. You can see both sunset and the rising of the moon at the same time on a particular day. Not surprisingly, as it is an international tourist spot so you can see a lot of tourists coming from all over the world.
The Kanyakumari beach with multi-colored sand and rocky shoreline is definitely one of the most beautiful beaches in south India and offers a great change from all other beaches. The waves that hit the shore are quite strong and frequent, that means that one does not get to enjoy a step into the shallow water or a sea bath.The shore being rocky makes it more dangerous to venture out to the sea, so people are asked to stay within the prescribed zone. You can shop for shells that are on sale on the Kanyakumari beach. There is a lighthouse on the beach from where one can get a ravishing view of the sea.
Festivals in India are incomplete without delicious food, and Navratri is no exception. Navratri is a long festival, which is celebrated continuously for nine days. Therefore, a variety of dishes are made and served during this festival. The Indian cuisines are famous for their wide variety. Special Navratri cuisine is a part of the multitude of culinary delights of the country. Since, in most of the communities, people observe fast during Navratri and eat only one meal a day at sunset, the Navratri meal has special courses and is strictly vegetarian. Even onion and garlic are not allowed, due to their foul smell.
Specific ingredients and vegetables are used for preparing delicious recipes on Navratri. The choice of vegetables may vary from region to region. Spices are restricted to red chillies, turmeric and cumin seeds and only rock salt can be used. However, one can eat milk, curd, fruits and nuts. In our related section, we have given some of the recipes that you can try during Navratri. Great care has been taken to ensure that the ingredients being specified here are in consistency with the allowed spices for the fasts. Yet, as this also varies from region to region, special care should be taken from your side as well.
Aloo Pulao
India is a land of festivals and festivals are incomplete without mouth watering dishes. Navratri is one of the festivals celebrated with a variety of dishes. As some people keep fast on this nine days festival, there are specific recipes which are made only with the ingredients used in the fast. Aloo is one such ingredient which is commonly used in the recipes for Navratri fasts. Below we have given special recipe for aloo pulao, which you can prepare during Navratri fasts. It is very easy to make and delicious to taste. Aloo Pulao Recipe
Ingredients
1 cup Samwat Rice (also known as Parsai ke chaawal)
2 tbsp. Ghee
1 tsp. Cumin Seeds
2 Cloves
A tiny piece of Cinnamon
2 green Cardamoms
1 large Potato (diced in small pieces)
2 tsp. Rock Salt
1/2 tsp. Red Chili Powder
3 cup Water
Green Coriander to garnish
Method
Heat ghee in a pan
Add cumin seeds, cloves, cardamom and cinnamon to the oil
When they give off fragrance, add potato and rice
Stir-fry to a light brown color
Add rock salt, chilli powder and water
Cover the pan and let it simmer on low flame for about 15 minutes.
Navratri is a nine-day grand celebration in India. During these days, devotees observe fast and worship Goddess Durga. On this occasion several kinds’ of Jagraate, community poojas, community feasts and celebrations are organized in various parts of the country. In Hindus, this festival is given immense importance and treated as a festival of the worship of several forms of Shakti. Nine different kinds of Durga forms are worshipped throughout the nine days celebration. Navratri is celebrated twice a year-once in Chaitra and the other in Ashwin. Several poets have expressed the eternal enlightenment and festive mood of the Navratra in their poem. Explore the two poems given below to understand more.
The temple priest has rung his bell.
A cloud of smoke from candles and lamps
Haloes the Goddess, glowing bright
this beat of drums both maddens and dulls.
The incense burns: so heady the musk,
Our senses flounder in the flood.
This endless chant of sacred words
soon drugs our lips and stuns our minds.
The Goddess, always staring down:
Her painted pupils cut through smoke
And read the secret thoughts we think.
We somehow feel this within our hearts.
To Mother, we know, we bow and pray –
Her form not just this image of clay.
Navratri Nine nights for goddess Durga Full of dance and songs People worship her image with flowers and prayers long. May the Goddess bless us with precious gifts to mankind People praise her image Full of beauty divine!
Contact Details
Veerapagupathy, Chothavilai beach, Thengamputhoor, Kanyakumari District. Ph. No : 04652 221337 8220099080
Kanyakumari is overcrowded by tourists all round the year. Because of that this town is developed in accord with tourism needs. Some of the luxurious hotels provide the best bed and breakfast. The streets of Kanyakumari are decorated by sea shell shops on both the sides. You can buy Conches, Personalized Conch with your name inscribed on it, Sea Shells, Star Fish shells, Pearls, Colorful Sand Packets, Straw Hats, Hair Clips and Hair Bands made of coconut shells, Kaleidoscopes, Sea Shell Artifacts, Traditional Saris and Dress Materials and many more souvenirs from these shops.
Kanyakumari Sunrise
Kanyakumari Sunset
Tamil is the state language and apart from that the languages like Malayalam and English are also spoken here. Kanyakumari food includes all types of South Indian Cuisine like Idly, Vada, Dosa, and Sambhar etc. Traditional attire of the natives is Lungi for men and Traditional cream Sari with golden border for women.
The Car Festival and The Navaratri Festival are two major festivals of Kanyakumari. The car festival or Cape Festival is celebrated in May or June at the temple of Goddess Kumari. The Idol of Kumari Amman is carried on a chariot in a procession.
Foods of Kanyakumarireflect the taste and food culture of the people of Kanyakumari. Rice is said to be the basic food of the people, however, there are some people in the mountainous region who take Tapioca instead of rice. In those hilly areas, Tapioca is the main food.
In the district of Kanyakumari, there are many people who have a high liking for meat, fish and agro products. Sea fishes are very popular among the people of Kanyakumari. Fishes are mainly caught in the seas around the district at night or early morning. Thereafter the fishes reach the village and inner towns markets in the early morning.
The Foods of Kanyakumari are quite spicy, but the preparations always use less ingredients than the ones in other Tamil Nadu districts. In most of the dishes, people prefer extensive use of coconuts as a major ingredient and in their curries and food items the flavor of coconut can be felt.
Kanyakumari Recipes are highly delicious and any one tried them once will definitely like to have them again. The main ingredient of this mouthwatering dish is coconut.
There are many restaurants in Kanyakumari, most of which offer quality food to the natives as well as to the international tourists. In this context the Palace Hotel, centrally located in the town, deserves mention. It provides good meals at an affordable price range, whereas, Saravana offers quality vegetarian meals. There are many Kanyakumari restaurants that serve South Indian, Chinese, Gujarati and Rajasthani meals at lunchtime and offer good dosas.
The smell of ocean to my nose. I can feel each grain of sand, It falls from air into my hand. The shells I find along the shore, Picked up by birds that fly and soar. They sparkle like the ocean's waves, And carry sand from all the lakes. I walk along the tip of the sea, That’s where my feet leave prints to be. I walk all the way to the end of the land, The land that holds this beautiful sand.
