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How To Reach Kodaikanal

The land of natural beauty and scenic landscapes

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    Travel To Kodaikanal

    Known for its alluring hills, a freshwater lake, waterfalls, temples, extensive tea estates, and marvelous landscapes, the hill town of Kodaikanal is a popular tourist attraction of South India. Numerous tourists flock to this city to witness its natural bounties and enjoy a vacation amidst its calm, and tranquil environment.

    Being a popular tourist spot, Kodaikanal is connected to the other parts of India, and rest of the world by various means of transport. This year around destination is visited by tourists through transports like flights, trains, buses, cabs, and private vehicles. Here’s how to reach Kodaikanal through various modes of transport, and cities.

    By Air

    Since Kodaikanal does not have its own airport, one might wonder how to reach Kodaikanal by flight, and find it difficult to reach Kodaikanal by air. Even though the city is not facilitated by its own airport but there are a few nearby airports like Trichy (150 kilometers), Madurai (120 km), and Coimbatore (175 km), Madurai being the nearest airport to Kodaikanal.

    Now, one might be thinking how to reach Kodaikanal from Madurai. Located 120 kilometers from the city center of Kodaikanal, Madurai airport is facilitated with various transportations. One can hire a cab, board a bus, or take a taxi to reach Kodaikanal from Madurai. Similarly, the answer how to reach Kodaikanal from Coimbatore is the same. Coimbatore airport is 175 kilometers from Kodaikanal, and one can choose from various local transfer options which include buses, tuk-tuks, and private cabs. A Kodaikanal travel guide includes detailed information about Kodaikanal route map and Kodaikanal distance from various cities.

    By Train

    Planning to travel to Kodaikanal by train? The city of Kodaikanal is connected to other parts of India through rail via Kodai road railway station. It is the nearest railway station to Kodaikanal up to where one can book their train tickets to reach this city. Various trains like Tuticorin Express, Tiruchendur Express, Nagercoil Express, Pearl City Express, and Trivandrum Express are some of the common trains that operate to and from the Kodai road railway station, the nearest railway station for Kodaikanal.

    How to reach Kodaikanal from Kodaikanal Road railway station: This railway station is approximately 80 kilometers from the city center, and there are various transportation options available to reach Kodaikanal. One can take a local or private bus, or hire a taxi to reach the desired location in Kodaikanal.

    By Road

    For people who love long drives or ones who want to save on their budget, traveling to Kodaikanal by road is one of the best options to reach the city. While traveling by road, one can choose various options such as bus, cab, or private vehicle. One must keep a Kodaikanal road map handy while traveling to Kodaikanal by road. A Kodaikanal map is quite useful to carry while traveling by road.

    One of the most exciting advantages of traveling to Kodaikanal by bus is that one gets an opportunity to enjoy the scenic Kodaikanal bus route which features greenery all around along with soothing environs and majestic landscapes. On reaching the city, one can board a Kodaikanal sightseeing bus which takes the tourists through the popular attractions of the city.

    One can also choose to drive to Kodaikanal on their own. Some of the best driving routes to Kodaikanal, and their distances from respective cities are given below:

    Coonoor To Kodaikanal: 232.7 kilometers

    Kolkata To Kodaikanal: 2,186.1 kilometers

    Distance Between Ooty And Kodaikanal:  kilometers

    Kodaikanal And Ooty Distance: 250 kilometers

    Dindigul Kodaikanal Distance: 2,627.8 kilometers

    Distance Between Coimbatore And Kodaikanal: 171.9 kilometers

    Distance Between Madurai And Kodaikanal: 116.2 kilometers

    Distance Between Kodaikanal And Munnar: 162.8 kilometers

    Ooty To Kodaikanal: 250 kilometers

    By AirBy RoadBy TrainBy Sea
    Bangalore to Kodaikanal5.0 hours8.0 hours9.0 hours-
    Pune to Kodaikanal-21.0 hours29.0 hours-
    New Delhi to Kodaikanal7.0 hours42.0 hours43.0 hours-
    Chennai to Kodaikanal-9.0 hours8.0 hours-
    Mumbai to Kodaikanal-23.0 hours30.0 hours-
    Hyderabad to Kodaikanal6.0 hours15.0 hours15.0 hours-

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      Sudipta Sengupta

      Bengaluru

      Sudipta's 3 days trip to Kodaikanal

      Thanks travel Triangle for fine arrangement. Like my previous three tour this was also very nice. I will recommend my friends circle to travel Triangle.
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      Jainfamilykapil

      Bangalore

      Jainfamilykapil's 8 days trip to Kodaikanal

      Enjoyed the trip. Hotels arranged by Sameera (68M Holidays) were nice, especially Hotel Rupa Spree Elite, Mysore was awesome. Driver Paul behaved nicely and answered each query politely.
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      Rameswaram

      Gana's 4 days trip to Kodaikanal

      Happy and Memorable trip with gosthala tours.. Trip went very well and support from cab driver also good.iam very happy with gostala for memorable trip.
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      Rohan Kumar

      Bangalore

      Rohan's 3 days trip to Kodaikanal

      Kodaikanal is amazing.. we had a great time .. Good : 1. lot of nice places to cover 2. driver was good, polite and helpful. Logesh - he got up early at 5 to drive us to Coimbatore airport. without him, we could have even missed our flight. 3. Hotel - room is good. Not good: 1. there's no network
      at hotel, even WiFi was not working. 2. Hotel - Food is ok..price is little more. Service is very slow.
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      Darshan Ballal

      Pune

      Darshan's 6 days trip to Kodaikanal

      It was nice experience with travel triangle n Victory World Tour. One suggestion - it would be better if you ask cab driver language preference.
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      Muniraj Kumar

      Bengaluru

      Muniraj's 3 days trip to Kodaikanal

      Great and awesome trip with everything as expected.Very friendly driver made my trip cool and enjoyable.I would like to thank Victory World and Travel Triangle for their service. Each and every moment
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      Piku

      Chennai

      Piku's 3 days trip to Kodaikanal

      Please make sure next time when we are going to a hill station particularly during winter tile the druver also gets some decent accomodation. The hotel rooms were ok but not perfect as the bathrooms were not cleaned kindly make sure good resort was choosen. The climate was damn good and food was v
      ery nice at sterling
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      Abhishek Lingamallu

      Bengaluru south

      Abhishek's 4 days trip to Kodaikanal

      The trip plan and resort choice is good. But the driver is very very bad. Had worst experience with cab driver from the start of the trip. Where ever we start he’ll tells that that will be closed. The worst thing is even for dinner and lunch also if we ask for a certain place he finds many reasons n
      ot to go there. At start only we understood and requested travel agent to change the driver, they convinced and sent us. We had a very bad and worst memories where our entire happiest trip mood changed to hit discussions and fight with the driver. Entire spoiler of the trip The best thing travel agent did is booking the resorts. The resorts are really awesome and the service is excellent. The eagles dare is one good option we chose in ooty
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      Vaibhav Dubey

      Bangalore

      Vaibhav's 3 days trip to Kodaikanal

      It was a pleasurable experience on our hassle free trip to Kodaikanal! We would surely prefer Travel Triangle for our next holiday trips!
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      Ravi Thakker

      Mumbai

      Ravi's 7 days trip to Kodaikanal

      There were some initial hitches with my bookings as the agreed itenary were sold out once the payment was made but post that it was a smooth ride with Carlo travels. Only recommendation would be to be more careful and confirm about property avialbility before final bookings. A special mention for th
      e cab service that they had provided 'South Tourism'. They were absolutely professional, disciplined and had a amazing fleet. Our driver Mr.Sridhar was very nice, he had hands on knowledge of all roads and and was very courteous. Would recommend Carlo travels to provide services from South Tourism to all their clients.

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      Is there a train from Bangalore to Kodaikanal?

      Yes, there are two trains running between Bangalore to Kodaikanal stations one is Mumbai Express (16340) and other one is Mysore Express (16235). The distance covered by train is 421 Km.

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