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Name

City

Access

Location

State

Best Time

Notes

Kovalam

Trivandrum

By bus/taxi from

Kerala

16 km from Trivandrum Trivandrum

One of the most beautiful beaches in India. Besides swimming, surfing, catamaran riding, one can avail of the age-old ayurvedic mass- age and oil bath.

Ezhimala

Cannanore

Rail from Bekal

76 km from Bekal

Kerala

Famous Portuguese fort on the beach.

86 km from Trivandrum

Tamil Nadu

Kanya ku- mari

By bus/taxi/train from Trivandrum

Throughout the year

The beach landscape with sands of myriad colour. The country's most beautiful sun rise, sunset can be seen from here.

Kanya

ku-

mari

Marina

Madras

By bus/taxi

Tamil Nadu

Throughout

One of the longest beaches in the world. The the year beach has a wide stretch of golden sand that is over 11km.

Covelong

Madras

By bus/taxi from

Tamil Nadu

38 km from Madras Madras

A fishing village with a beach en route to Mahabalipuram. Good for a day's picnic.

Pulicat

Madras

by train or bus upto

Tamil Nadu

The ruins of a Dutch fort and beach are main attractions.

61 km from Madras Ennore

Elliots

Madras

By bus/taxi

11 km from Madras

Tamil Nadu

Bathing beach.

Ennore

Madras

By bus/taxi from

Tamil Nadu

18 km from Madras Madras

Boating on the backwaters in local fishing craft.

Mamalla- -puram

Madras

5 8 km from Madras

Tamil Nadu

A beautiful beach resort, also a marvellous open-air museum of rock-cut caves & carvi ngs monolithic structures and bas reliefs of the Pallava Dynasty (6th C - lOthC).

By bus/taxi/train from Madras

Throughout the year

Lawson Bay

Andhra Pradesh

An attractive beach for swimming.

By road & air from Hyderabad

Vishaka pat- nam

Pondicherry

160 km from Madras

Pondicherry (U.T)

Aug - Mar

Popular for swimming and sun-bathing.

Pondicher -ry Beach

Direct train from Madras. Good roads connecting Pondycherry

to Madras, B’lore, Chidambaram etc

Corbyn's Cove

Port Blair

Sept - Oct

Picturesque beach ideal for swiming & diving.

1,255 km from Calcutta 1,191 km from Madras

By air & sea from Calcutta & Madras

Andaman & Nicobarls.

North Bay

Port Blair

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A long & sandy beach

Kadmat

Lakshadweep (U.T)

Throughtout the year except mo- nsoon June-July

By ship & air from Cochin

250-400 km from Cochin

Excellent for swimming and viewing under water coral.

Bangaram

By air from Cochin to

Lakshadweep coast

Good-arrangements for boating , water skiing and viewing underwatercoral.

460 km from Cochin Agatti & then by fast boat to Bangaram

Throughout the year except during monsoon June-July

EAST

Puri

Puri

By air or train from

Orissa

Nov - May

62 km from Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar

Excellent surf & shallow waters are great at- tractions as well as sunrise & sunset on beach.

Gopalpur

Puri

By train from Berham-

Orissa

Nov - May

Was a popular but now a decaying beach resort.

18 km from Berhampur pur

Digha

By bus

250 km south of

W.Bengal Calcutta

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A calm & shallow sea.