Yes, Trivandrum has a city beach on the other side (seaside) of the airport. To have a full scope I decided to go there by foot – it is some 4 kms from the city center. First what you will see will be a row of fishing boats and some stalls whete the ladies accompanied by sea birds are selling fish. Bad smell, garbage – I took few pictures and escaped to the Terminal 1 (domestic) of the airport.
The beach you will see 100 m further north was completly empty if you don’t count wandering dogs. Another boats are parked on the sand an there is a lot of garbage around. Only the 5-m strip kissed by silver waves is clean.
I walked in the heat further north to reach after half kilometre two lonely guys from life guard. There was a restairant above the sand and some food stalls. The owners told me that people are coming here only in the late afternoon to enjoy the sunset. Maybe. But due to the lack of palms it is hard to say it is romantic place… Bus 9A goes here from East Fort. The stop is easy to recognize – there is monument of army helicopter. Nearby the monument of the sirene was more interesting for me:
Summary: the capital of Kerala should have clean and developed beach!
