Kovalam is a beach town on the Arabian Sea in Kerala, a state in south India. It is located around 13 km from downtown Thiruvananthapuram, Kovalam offers an excellent diversity with Kovalam beach to suit all desires and occasions. Kovalam has plenty of hotels, resorts and ayurveda resorts. Three curve shaped beaches, alienated by stony outcroppings, from the major attraction of this coastal resort. Backed by precipitously mounting headlands and covered by fertile coconut palms, the beaches, especially the southern most part of lighthouse beach.