Located at 8 kms from Thiruvanathapuram, Shanghumukham Beach is a favourite haunt of sunset watchers. The beach is adjacent to the thiruvananthapuram airport and veli tourist village.

A gigantic sculpture of a mermaid can also be seen apparently in the posture of taking a well-deserved rest after a tiring swim. The Chacha Nehru Traffic Training Park here, helps children learn the traffic rules.

This is the ideal spot for watching the sunset. The glorious sight of the mighty Sun submerging into the deep blue see in the faraway horizon sending out its golden orange and yellow rays is relished, time and again, by visitors of all sorts.

You can see the fishermen fishing with their huge nets in the day time. An indoor recreation club, the matsya kanyaka and a restaurant shaped like a starfish are the major attractions here.

Some other magnificient beaches in India provide the most tempting combination of sun, sand, sea and surf that is too hard to resist for any beach lover and water sport adventurer.

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