Kumarakom is a striking tourism objective energized close to the city of Kottayam, in Kerala, India, unquestionably restoring for its backwater tourism. It is set in the view of the Vembanad Lake, the greatest lake in the domain of Kerala. 

Kumarakom was inside the ward of the leader of Thekkumkur while that kingdom existed, and it was consistent to have fighting and competitions among neighborhood masters. Little barges called chundan vallam and veppu vallam were comprehensively used among the area rulers for their lightning ambushes and doing combating in central Travancore. In the midst of those days Vembanad Lake was a perilous district; thusly the leader of Thekkumcore kept warriors in Kumarakom and built up a fortress at the section of Kottathodu in Kumarakom. 

Officers were kept in particular locales of Kumarakom for confirmation against enemy attacks; a segment of those spots still have "pada" (which implies war) in their names, for instance, Padakkalam and Padanilam. The rest of the parts of the fortification's divider, six feet wide, can at show be seen near the town office of Kumarakom.