![]() ![]() ![]() Lakhs of tourists, round the year lured by the serene beauty of this place and the spectacles of sunrise and sunset. Though the sunrise can be viewed round the year, the sunset is visible only from 15, October to 15, March from the southern most tip. Chaitrapurnima (Tamil for the April full moon day) is one of the best times to experience the sunset and moonrise over the ocean in Kanyakumari simultaneously. Pilgrims come here to visit Kanyakumari temple and bath in the sacred water. ![]() It’s dedicated to the goddess Devi Kanya, an incarnation of Parvati. Kanyakumari has great spiritual significance for Hindus. ‘Kumari Amman’ a temple is dedicated to virgin goddess Kanyakumari (kanya – ‘lady’, kumari – ‘virgin’). Kanyakumari is a popular pilgrim centre and named after goddess ‘Parvati’, wife of lord ‘Shiva’. east of Trivandrum city, capital of Kerala. kanyakumari is located near the border of Tamilnadu and Kerala. Kanyakumari is also known as Cape Comorin. A dip in the ‘Triveni Sangam’ (confluence of the three seas) at Kanyakumari is considered holy. Here, the Bay of Bengal meets the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea. It is famed for its incomparable geographical location of not only its land’s end, but also for Tri-sea (Arabian sea, Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal) confluence. ![]() Kanyakumari is the ‘Land’s End’ of the Indian subcontinent, located in the state of Tamilnadu in south India. ![]()
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