Charalkunnu

The site of Asia’s largest Christian convention, held for about eight days each February on the vast Pamba river sand-bed beside the Kozhencherry bridge; organised by the Mar Thoma church since 1895, the tent seats well over a hundred thousand.

Temple town on the Pamba, known for the Parthasarathy Temple, the Uthrattathi snake-boat race and the famous Aranmula Kannadi metal mirror.

An ancient hilltop Shiva temple near Thiruvalla, with fine woodwork; the nearby Trikkakkudi rock-cut cave temple, carved from a single rock, dates to about the 8th century.

One of the oldest and largest temples in Kerala and one of the 108 Divya Desams, at Thiruvalla — famous for Kathakali performed every evening as a temple offering and for a 54-ft Garuda flag mast carved from a single granite block.

A hilltop Jacobite Syrian pilgrim centre (dayara) near Pathanamthitta, the resting place of Patriarch Ignatius Elias III; its annual perunnal draws large crowds.

Pandalam Palace refers to a group of family buildings and worship spaces by the Achankovil river. The visitor anchor is the Valiyakoikkal-side approach, not a promise of admission to every residence or sacred room.

The prominent rock hill above Pathanamthitta, reached by a steep local climb with broad town and highland views; heat, wet rock and exposed edges shape the visit.

Malayalapuzha, also written Malayalappuzha, is the Bhadrakali temple near Kumbazha in Pathanamthitta district, administered by the Travancore Devaswom Board.

On an island in the Pamba, the church of St Gregorios of Parumala (Parumala Thirumeni) — the first canonised saint of the Malankara Orthodox Church; a major pilgrimage, busiest at the November feast.

An ancient Shiva temple on the banks of the Pamba at Niranam, one of the 108 famous Shiva temples of Kerala; its deity is Dakshinamurthy (Shiva as the teacher of all knowledge), and it is tied to the Niranam (Kannassan) poets of the 14th–15th centuries.

Perunthenaruvi is the broad rocky waterfall landscape in the Pamba basin near Ranni. The nearby KSEB weir and small hydel project are separate infrastructure, not the visitor waterfall entrance.

The Kottayam-border town where the traditional Sabarimala pilgrimage begins, with the Vavar mosque standing beside the Sastha temple.