Very popular on the tourist trail of Kerala, Aranmula is the home of an ancient craft of metal mirrors. Tourists visit Subramanian Achary and Arjun Achary the two kannadi craftsmen in Aranmula to watch these men dextrously create metal mirrors using cire perdu (lost-wax) process using an alloy of copper, bronze, brass, silver and lead. A visit to their workshop will be very insightful and insightful about the history of Aranmula Kannadi, which once adorned the royal palaces in the past. Sree Parthasarathy temple, 1800 years old is the abode of Lord Vishnu in the form of Annadanaprabhu. Aranmula's Vijana Kala Vedi Cultural Center offers tourists basic courses of all Kerala art forms – Kathakali, Mohiniattam, Kalarippayat, Ayurveda, Kerala painting and crafts and traditional cuisine cooking. If you plan your trip in the festival month of Onam, Aranmula's snakeboat race on River Pampa makes your trip worthwhile.