Vanamamalai Perumal Temple

A Pandya-era Shiva temple at Kalakkad, a Tevaram Vaippu Sthalam praised in hymns by the saints Appar and Manikkavasagar. Largely Pandya in construction with 13th-century reconstruction attributed to Veera Marthanda Varman, it is the principal ancient temple of the Kalakkad gateway to KMTR.

A Ramsar-listed sanctuary in Nanguneri taluk that is the largest breeding reserve for water birds in South India, protected by the local village community.

A Divya Desam Vishnu temple at the foot of the Western Ghats with a tall rajagopuram and five Nambi forms (standing, sitting, reclining and more) across its shrines.

A town on the Thamirabarani famed for the Pattamadai pai, a superfine korai-grass mat woven so tightly it can be folded like cloth, a GI-tagged handicraft once presented to royalty. The riverbank village is the traditional centre of this centuries-old silk-mat weaving craft.

A sandy beach at the fishing village of Kootapuli on the Radhapuram coast, facing the open sea near the southern tip of the district. The village, home to St. Joseph's Church, sits close to the Koodankulam coastline and offers a quiet stretch of the Tirunelveli seaboard.

A prominent Sufi dargah and mosque in Radhapuram taluk near the coast, its twin domes marking tombs traditionally attributed to the saints Hazrat Syed Ali Fathima and Hazrat Shegu Muhammad. Built in a Dravidian-influenced style with a pillared hall and a sacred tank, its annual kandoori festival draws pilgrims of all faiths.

A roughly 700-year-old Vishnu temple on the Thamirabarani about 16 km west of Tirunelveli, built under the Travancore Samasthanam. Its moolavar is a rare standing Krishna holding butter in both palms, and the maha mandapam walls carry over 40 carvings from the Ramayana, Mahabharata and Bhagavata.

An old Shiva temple at Melaseval village on the Ambasamudram road, standing near the larger Navaneethakrishnan temple. It is one of the Saivite shrines of the Thamirabarani belt west of Tirunelveli.

A Shiva temple on the right bank of the Thamirabarani, the second of the nine Nava Kailasam temples strung along the river.

A 12th-century Pandya Vishnu temple on the banks of the Thamirabarani at Cheranmahadevi, noted for its carved mandapams.

A vast twin Shiva (Nellaiappar) and Parvati (Kanthimathi) temple beside the Thamirabarani, famed for its musical stone pillars and the Chain (Mani) Mandapam linking the two shrines.

The famed 'dark shop' halwa outlet opposite the Nellaiappar temple, established in 1900 and unchanged since, source of the wheat-ghee Tirunelveli halwa the city is known for.