Thiruvananthapuram, India Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Kerala's capital, the coastal city of THIRUVANANTHAPURAM (still widely and more commonly known as Trivandrum ), is set on seven low hills, 87km from the southern tip of India. Despite its administrative importance – demonstrated by wide roads, multistorey office blocks and gleaming white colonial buildings – it's a decidedly easy-going city, with a mix of narrow backstreets and traditional red-tiled gabled houses, and acres of palm trees and parks breaking up the bustle of its modern concrete centre. Although it has few monuments as such, Thiruvananthapuram, as a window on Keralan … more »