Plan

Plan your days in Chikkamagaluru

Tell us how long you have and what you want to see. We pick the places, put them in the shortest driving order and draw each day on the map. Places only: no rooms, no bookings.

Plan your trip

How many days?

Each day is fitted to real driving times.

Who is travelling?

It sets the pace and how hard the walks get.

What do you want to see?

Pick in order of priority, or skip for the district's favourites.

Where will you sleep?

Just the town. This companion does not list rooms.

Base town

When are you going?

Places out of season drop down the list.

Or start from a sketch

Three written routes through the district. Each one opens as a planned route you can change.

Coffee hills

Three slow days

Coffee hills

A ridge sketch from town: Mullayanagiri at first light, Hirekolale at dusk, Baba Budangiri and Jhari if the jeep track is open. Coffee country is the landscape, not a room listing.

Mullayanagiri · Hirekolale Lake · Baba Budangiri / Datta Peetha · Jhari Falls (Buttermilk Falls) · Shade-grown coffee country

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Temple terrace

Malnad pilgrimage

Temple terrace

Sringeri on the Tunga, Horanadu and Kalasa through the Mudigere ghats, Belavadi’s Hoysala stone on the way east. Dress codes and darshan times belong to the mathas, not to this page.

Sringeri Sharadamba Temple · Vidyashankara Temple, Sringeri · Horanadu Annapoorneshwari Temple · Kalasa & Kalaseshwara Temple · Veeranarayana Temple, Belavadi

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Forest edge

Permit country

Forest edge

Kemmanagundi and Z Point for grassland, Hebbe if the estate road allows, Bhadra and Kudremukh only with forest-department permission. This circuit is a reminder, not a ticket.

Kemmanagundi · Z Point · Hebbe Falls · Bhadra Tiger Reserve · Kudremukh National Park

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