Within 30 mins drive from the capital city of Trivandrum, Kovalam is an internationally renowned beach with three adjacent crescent beaches. It has been a favourite haunt of tourists, especially Europeans, since the 1930s. A massive rocky promontory on the beach has created a beautiful bay of calm waters ideal for sea bathing. The leisure options at this beach are plenty and diverse of which Sunbathing & swimming, top the list. The beaches are quite crowded with shacks and shops, if you are looking for a quite beach then you could move to south Kovalam that is comparatively less crowded.