Aazhimala - Most Beautiful Tourist Spot in Kovalam, Kerala

Aazhimala is the most beautiful place among the tourist spots in Kovalam.

Really Aazhimala is the paradise in earth where the sea meets with sky. The main attractions in this place includes beautiful beach, tourist resorts, Aazhimala Siva Temple, long view of sea shore which ends only in infinity of horizon. Once you have visited and enjoyed the beauty of Aazhimala beach, will become a regular visitor to Aazhimala. The charming secrets of beautiful beach remains tempting cause among any nature lovers. The preservation of natural beauty isolates Aazhimala beach as unique among other tourist spots of Kerala.

There are lot of ancient stories connecting Aazhimala to many historic events and characters of Epics Ramayana and Mahabharata. The Shiva Temple located at the rocky land above the beach has many connections with historic events.

History of Aazhimala, Kovalam

Most famous among the stories about Aazhimala is related to the vanavasa (forest life) period of Pandavas. The Pandavas during their vanavasa, while passing through sea shore become tired and stayed for some time at the beach. When Panchali was thirsty and when asked for water, Bheemasena digs with his foot back on water flowing rock. Pandavas drink water collected at the dig made by Bheemasena. The dig still remains in the rock and the place is called colloquially as Kinnikkuzhi.

There is also a famous story related to Jambhava. Jambhava person in Ramayana, during the "Tretha Yuga" used to stay at a sea shore cave for meditation. The cave was near to Aazhimala Temple. Still there is some remaining of some natural cave near to sea shore, and the place is locally called as Charupara.

Still there are lots of facts remains as unknown stories related to Aazhimala.

Aesthetic Beauty of Aazhimala beach

If we compare the heavenly beauty of the beach, there are really some unique attractions which extremely differentiate Aazhimala from other tourist beaches. One of the most amazing attraction is its seasonal visual change. I must explain about it in detail. If you comes to visit the beach during the tourist season, that is January to May, there will be a long sandy beach with wide area of about 100 to 300 meter in width between sea and the actual shore land. Really no words to explain the beauty and its core attractiveness in the period. And when rainy season starts with June, the sea waves will swallow the entire sandy area and will hit strongly at rocky shore. It is not at all imaginable when the powerful wind waves hits on shore rocks and jumps up in huge heights during the off season. The beach will become much more noisy and dangerous with the strong surface waves when more rain water reaches into the sea. Once you have visited Aazhimala beach during the tourist season and if you comes back in rainy season, (off season ) I bet you can't even identify some of the beach spots. I am sure and stick on my bet because 99 percentage of my friends and guests visited same spot during different season really failed to identify some the beach spots.


There are many tourist resorts located in Aazhimala. Most of them are attracting a lot of tourists and travelers every year. By the increase in number of tourist resorts in Aazhimala, the place as a whole is blessed as a Tourist Village. A perfect tourist village with many attractions which attracts thousands of tourist every month in seasons.

The tourist resorts located in Aazhimala are Ayurveda resorts providing all hospitality to foreign tourists coming for Ayurveda treatments. They get enough enjoyments and Ayurveda treatments and therapies  like Panchakarma, Kizhi, Dhara, Shirodhara etc. All of the tourist resorts in Aazhimala have their own in house massage center, Ayurveda doctors and experts. There will be yoga practice, meditation, breathing exercise etc to the inmates of resorts by specialists in their field. During peak seasons, and special events like tourism festivals, new year, there will be cultural programs like Kathakali, Thiruvathirakkali, Kaikottikkali etc as part of entertainment provisions for the tourists and travelers.

Aazhimala the amazing paradise of southern Kovalam welcomes you to enjoy your happy holidays and Kerala Tour.