Thanks for the virtual tour @qagiri. I so want to visit South India and now I am close to achieving it. Working on a plan to move to Bangalore in few months and then tour as much of South India as I can. This post gave a boost and also an idea on how to go about visiting Kovalam.

The pics are beautiful and also you explained very elaborately. Keep travelling and keep writing, so that we also get a chance to visit them from our desk atleast.