A well-liked tourist place in India, the town and the district, Kanyakumari District, in which it is located, is a place of great natural loveliness - from the blue seas of Kanyakumari town to the blue hills of the Western Ghats in the interior.

Kanyakumari take its name from the Kumari Amman or Kanyakumari Temple, located in the town, on the sea-shore, the very flowing together of the three water-bodies - Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea. In his work on ancient India, Ptolemy had identified Kanyakumari (Cape Comorin) along with the Gulf of Mannar as a centre for pearl fishery.

start the early part of the 1970s, sightseeing has been an important activity in the town. Of late, Tourism is increasingly being promoted in the district also, apart from the town, with several beautiful natural landscape, historic and spiritual places found around the region.

Though there are several places of tourist-interest in the town and region, Kanyakumari is especially well-liked in India for its spectacular and unique dawn and sunset. The confluence of three ocean bodies - the Bay of Bengal, the Indian Ocean, and the Arabian Sea - makes the sunrise and sunset even more special. On balmy, full-moon evenings, (locally called Chitra Pournami) one can also see the moon-rise and sunset at the same time - on either side of the prospect.