Public transport is always entertaining in India. Check out the bus ride down to Kanyakumari. No room on the bus? Doesn’t matter!
Vivekananda Rock & Thiruvalluvar Statue are 2 attractions to be viewed simultaneously. There’s a common ferry ride serving both, with a glass gloored fly-bridge between the two islands.
The ferry ride out is a very basic affair,
Vivekananda Rock
Vivekananda Rock Memorial is a monument and popular tourist attraction in Kanyakumari, India’s southernmost tip. The memorial stands on one of the two rocks located about 500 meters off mainland of Vavathurai, Tamil Nadu. It was built in 1970 in honour of Swami Vivekananda, who is said to have attained enlightenment on the rock.
According to legends, it was on this rock that Goddess Kanyakumari (Parvathi) performed tapas in devotion of lord Shiva. A meditation hall known as Dhyana Mandapam is also attached to the memorial for visitors to meditate.
Thiruvalluvar Statue
The Thiruvalluvar Statue, or the Valluvar Statue, is a 41-metre-tall (135 ft) stone sculpture of the Tamil poet and philosopher Valluvar, known as Thiruvalluvar, the author of the Thirukkural, an ancient Tamil work on morality. It is located atop a small island near the town of Kanniyakumari on the southernmost point of the Indian peninsula in the state Tamil Nadu, India, where two seas (the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea) and an ocean (the Indian Ocean) meet. The statue was sculpted by Indian sculptor V. Ganapati Sthapati, who also created the Iraivan Temple, and was unveiled on the millennium day of 1 January 2000
The best views of the statue are actually on the ferry ride. Once on the statue’s base, the monument is so large, you can’t get a god image
Vinod & Neil peering at the statue from a lookout vantage point