Day trips from Bengaluru

Heritage · Bengaluru Urban

A red brick and stone building in Cubbon Park, opposite the Vidhana Soudha, that houses the principal bench of the Karnataka High Court. Built in neoclassical style, it…

City · Bengaluru Urban

Namma Bengaluru Aquarium, a government aquarium at the entrance of Cubbon Park opened in 1983, run by the Karnataka Department of Fisheries. Its three-storey octagonal…

Heritage · Bengaluru Urban

A private members' club in Bengaluru founded in 1868 by Benjamin Lewis Rice and named after Lewin Bentham Bowring. It is best known for its tennis facilities and its…

Heritage · Bengaluru Urban

A Presbyterian church on Cubbon Road, Bengaluru, consecrated in 1866 and named after Saint Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland. It was a Church of Scotland kirk until…

Heritage · Bengaluru Urban

The granite seat of Karnataka's legislature and secretariat in central Bengaluru, built in Neo-Dravidian style and completed in 1956. It was conceived by Kengal…

Heritage · Bengaluru Urban

The remains of Bengaluru's old fort near K.R. Market, begun as a mud fort by Kempe Gowda I in 1537 and rebuilt in stone by Hyder Ali in 1761. The British captured it in…

Heritage · Bengaluru Urban

A church on M.G. Road in the old Bangalore Cantonment, consecrated in 1865 on the site of an earlier Wesleyan Mission Chapel. Its name comes from its position east of…

City Parks · Bengaluru Urban

A park in Bengaluru's central business district built on the site of the former Central Jail and opened to the public in November 2008. Part of it is set aside as the…

City Parks · Bengaluru Urban

A park on Raj Bhavan Road in Vasanth Nagar, opposite the Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, known for its evening musical fountain shows of about 30 minutes each.

Entry ₹30 per adult

City · Bengaluru Urban

An interactive space museum on T. Choudaiah Road opposite the Indira Gandhi Musical Fountain, run by the Bangalore Association for Science Education. It has Sky Theatre…

Entry ₹100 per adult

Heritage · Bengaluru Urban

A government museum on the first floor of Mayo Hall in Bengaluru, dedicated to Kempegowda, the 16th-century founder of the city. A glass floor shows an 18th-century map…

Temples

The Ranganathaswamy Temple, also known as Arulmigu Ranganathar Thirukovil, is a Hindu temple dedicated to Ranganathar (a form of Vishnu) and his consort Ranganayaki (a…

Heritage · Bengaluru Urban

An old Protestant cemetery in Bengaluru on Army Service Corps land, used from 1808 to about 1870. Two 40-foot Ionic columns commemorate officers of the 13th Light…

Heritage · Bengaluru Urban

A Tudor-style palace modelled on Windsor Castle, between Sadashivanagar and Jayamahal, with turreted parapets, battlements and towers, later acquired by the Maharajas…

Entry ₹240 per Indian adult

Heritage · Bengaluru Urban

An Anglican church at Trinity Circle at the east end of M.G. Road, built in the early 1850s for the British regiment stationed in Bengaluru. In English Renaissance…

Temples · Bengaluru Urban

A Venkateshwara temple on Krishnarajendra Road, built in 1689 by Chikka Devaraja Wodeyar of Mysore in Dravidian and Vijayanagara style. It stands beside the old fort,…

City Parks · Bengaluru Urban

A 240-acre botanical garden in south Bengaluru begun by Hyder Ali around 1760 and expanded by Tipu Sultan, run by the state Horticulture Department. Its Glass House,…

Entry ₹30 per Indian adult

Heritage · Bengaluru Urban

An exposure of Peninsular Gneiss, the ancient metamorphic rock that underlies much of southern India, at Lal Bagh in Bengaluru. The Geological Survey of India declared…

Temples · Bengaluru Urban

A Shiva temple in Halasuru dating back to the Chola period, with major additions in the late Vijayanagara era. It follows Vijayanagara architecture on a smaller scale,…

Heritage · Bengaluru Urban

A teak palace in Old Bengaluru near Kalasipalya, begun by Hyder Ali inside the walls of the Bangalore Fort and completed under Tipu Sultan in 1791. The ASI maintains…

Entry ₹20 per person

Lakes

A lake of about 50 hectares in Halasuru, near MG Road in central Bengaluru, with several small islands. The present lake was created by Lewin Bentham Bowring, then…

Free entry

City Parks · Bengaluru Urban

A park around Bugle Rock in Basavanagudi, south Bengaluru, a massive outcrop of Peninsular Gneiss estimated to be about 3,000 million years old.

Temples

A temple on Bull Temple Road in Basavanagudi built in 1537 by Kempe Gowda, dedicated to Nandi. Its granite Nandi monolith, about 4.6 m tall and 6.1 m long, is kept…

Temples · Bengaluru Urban

Dodda Ganapathi Temple in Basavanagudi, Bengaluru, houses a large monolithic Ganesha idol. It is said to have been sculpted in the time of Kempegowda I, and the idol…

Temples

A Shiva temple cut into a natural rock cave in Gavipuram, built in the 16th century by Kempe Gowda I (legend dates it to the sages Gautama and Bharadwaja). On Makar…

Lakes

A lake of about 47 acres behind Jinke Park in Chamarajpet, built in the 16th century by Kempe Gowda I and named for his family deity Kempamma. It is managed by the city…

Free entry

Temples

A Hanuman temple in Basavanagudi next to BMS College for Women, built on the site of the old Karanji lake. Its north-facing idol is about 18 ft tall, one of the tallest…

Heritage · Bengaluru Urban

One of the oldest temples in Bengaluru, at Domlur, dedicated to Chokkanathaswamy (Chokka Perumal). Its Kannada and Tamil inscriptions show it is at least as old as 1200…

Lakes

A 37-acre tank in Malleshwaram, built in 1882 by Colonel Richard Hieram Sankey of the Royal Engineers to secure Bangalore's water supply after the Great Famine of…

Free entry

Temples

The ISKCON Sri Radha Krishna Temple on Hare Krishna Hill, Chord Road, Rajajinagar. Entry is free, with darshan in the early morning, through the late morning and in the…

Free entry

Temples · Bengaluru Urban

Ragigudda Sri Prasanna Anjaneya Temple stands on a hillock in Jayanagar 9th Block, Bengaluru. It was built in 1969 and registered in 1972. According to local folklore,…

Temples · Bengaluru Urban

Lakshmikantha Temple is in Lakshmikantha Park in Padmanabhanagar, south-west Bengaluru.

City Parks · Bengaluru Urban

A two-acre neighbourhood park on 4th C Main Road, OMBR Layout, Banaswadi, east Bengaluru, used mainly for walking.

Lakes

A lake in Chikkalasandra, south Bengaluru, that local residents say has been largely taken over by an illegal residential layout. Civic agencies cleared encroachments…

Lakes

One of Bengaluru's largest lakes, about 114 hectares, in BTM Layout between Hosur Road and Bannerghatta Road. It is maintained by the Karnataka Forest Department, has a…

Best season: November to January for migratory birds · Entry ₹5 per adult

Lakes

Agara lake is an 80-acre lake located in Agara, Bangalore. It is part of the Varthur lake series. Madiwala Lake is upstream while Bellandur Lake is downstream.…

City · Bengaluru Urban

India's first aerospace museum, part of the HAL Heritage Centre on Old Airport Road, Marathahalli, showing the growth of Indian aviation and of Hindustan Aeronautics.…

Lakes · Bengaluru Urban

A lake of about 57 hectares in north Bengaluru near the Bellary Road–Outer Ring Road junction, dating to the 16th century (1537). Two artificial islands are roosts for…

Best season: October to March for migratory birds · Free entry

Temples · Bengaluru Urban

Sringagiri Sri Shanmukha Temple of the Sringeri Sharada Peetham stands on a hillock about 240 feet high in Rajarajeshwari Nagar, Bengaluru. The temple is 123 feet tall,…

Temples · Bengaluru Urban

A Srinivasa (Vishnu) temple on a small hillock in Vasanthapura, south Bengaluru, run by the state Muzrai department. A blog credits the Cholas with building it and…

Temples · Bengaluru Urban

Hulimavu Cave Temple, also called Hulimavu Shiva Cave Temple, is a shrine set inside a natural rock cave in Hulimavu, off Bannerghatta Road, Bengaluru. Its detailed…

City Parks · Bengaluru Urban

Jayaprakash Narayan Biodiversity Park (JP Park) in Mathikere, north-west Bengaluru, a large park with four lakes, a nature house, an open-air theatre and an exhibition…

Free entry

Temples · Bengaluru Urban

Meenakshi Sundareshwarar Temple on Bannerghatta Main Road in Hulimavu, Bengaluru, was built in recent times by the Tamil community of the city in memory of the…

Lakes

Sarjapura (also spelled Sarjapur) is a small town on the outskirts of Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. It is a hobli of Anekal taluk, Bengaluru Urban district, and is…

Lakes

Temples

The Sri Matsya Narayana temple in Omkar Ashram on Omkar Hills, Bengaluru, the only temple in Karnataka dedicated to Matsya Narayana, the fish avatar of Vishnu.

Lakes

Lakes

A lake on Old Madras Road in east Bengaluru, immediately north-west of Benniganahalli metro station. The metro corporation improved access and installed facilities at…

Lakes

A lake with a biodiversity park in Nagawara, north-east Bengaluru, with a 1.2 km walking track, about 1,800 native trees, a children's play area and a medicinal plant…

Free entry

Heritage · Bengaluru Urban

A museum in the HMT estate at Jalahalli celebrating Hindustan Machine Tools, with over 1,500 HMT watch models on the ground floor and machine tools and tractors…

Entry ₹30 per adult

Lakes

A lake in Horamavu, north-east Bengaluru, which the water board (BWSSB) refilled with treated wastewater in 2024.

Amusement

A waterfront leisure park stretching about 1.5 km along Nagavara Lake on the Outer Ring Road at Hebbal. Its main attractions are a wave pool and boat rides on the lake.

Entry ₹50 per person

Lakes

Puttenahalli WS Lake also spelled as Puttanahalli Lake is a 10-hectare water body near Yelahanka, 14 km north of Bangalore. This lake is not to be confused with another…

Amusement

An indoor snow park in the Fun World complex on Jayamahal Road, kept at about −7°C, with snowfall, slides and a snow disco. Jackets, gloves and snow boots are provided,…

Entry ₹650 per person

Lakes

Varthuru is a suburb situated in the Eastern periphery of Bangalore City and part of the internationally famous Whitefield township. Varthur is a Hobli and part of the…

Lakes

Jakkur (also spelled Jakkuru) is a suburb in the northern part of Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Located on the eastern side of the National Highway 44 between Yelahanka…

Lakes

Temples

Heritage · Bengaluru Urban

A small circular fort in Begur, a suburb off the Bengaluru-Hosur highway, said to have been built by the Cholas near the old Panchalingeshwara temple complex. An…

City Parks · Bengaluru Urban

A Forest Department tree park on Whitefield Main Road in Kadugodi, east Bengaluru, with a jogging track that winds under the tree cover. It sits close to the Kadugodi…

Lakes

An 18-acre lake at Kannamangala village, east of Whitefield. It was the main water source for the Kannamangala, Seegehalli and Doddabhanahalli panchayats, serving more…

Lakes

A 30–40 acre lake in a village inside the Ragihalli forest, in the Bannerghatta National Park area, reached via Kanakapura Road. There is no food, water or shade…

Wildlife · Bengaluru Urban

A national park about 22 km south of central Bengaluru, established in 1974. Part of it became the Bannerghatta Biological Park in 2002, with a zoo, safari and…

Best season: October to June (October to February is coolest) · Entry ₹120 per Indian adult

Heritage · Bengaluru Urban

A walled complex near Chikkajala village off the airport highway, about 25 km from Bengaluru, with stone pillars around a central pond and a small Hanuman temple. Its…

Lakes

A lake of more than 30 acres about 10 km from Bannerghatta, on the road to Thottikallu falls. Eagles, ducks, kingfishers and cranes are seen here, and the bund gives…

Offbeat

A dry deciduous forest of about 590 acres off Kanakapura Road on Bengaluru's southern edge, run by the Karnataka Forest Department, with a small Shani temple on a rocky…

Entry ₹10 per adult

Offbeat

Amusement

A large amusement and water park on Mysore Road, about 28 km from central Bengaluru, with more than 60 rides. The water park section opens a little later than the main…

Entry ₹920 per adult

Offbeat

A forest park at Avalahalli near Yelahanka in north Bengaluru, open in the morning and evening for a small entry fee.

Entry ₹10 per adult

Waterfalls

A small seasonal cascade near the Hesaraghatta reservoir, about 29 km from Bengaluru. It flows only in the peak monsoon months and is dry for the rest of the year.

Best season: July to September (monsoon only) · Free entry

Offbeat

The Greater Hesaraghatta Grassland Conservation Reserve, about 5,678 acres (2,298 ha) of grassland just north of Bengaluru, officially notified on 24 February 2025.

Lakes · Bengaluru Urban

A reservoir built in 1894 across the Arkavathy River to supply drinking water to Bengaluru, on the city's north-west edge. It lies within the Hesaraghatta Grasslands…

Free entry

Offbeat · Bengaluru Urban

A banyan tree more than 400 years old at Kettohalli, off the Bengaluru–Mysuru Road, whose prop roots spread over about 3 acres. The main trunk died of disease around…

Free entry

Temples

Mukthi Naga Temple in Ramohalli, on the western outskirts of Bengaluru, is a temple dedicated to the serpent deity Naga.

Lakes

A rural lake near Bidadi, about 30 km from Bengaluru, surrounded by paddy fields.

Waterfalls · Bangalore Urban

Thottikallu is a place near Bangalore off the Kanakapura road in the Bangalore Urban district. It is famous for a falls called Thottikallu falls, more popularly known…

Heritage · Bengaluru Urban

Devanahalli Fort is located about 35 kilometers north of Bangalore city in Karnataka. Originally built as a mud fort in 1501, it was later reconstructed in stone in the…

Temples

Muthuraya Swamy Hill Temple sits on top of a hill about 42 km from Bengaluru and 27 km from Kanakapura. It is reached by a steep mud road or by trekking through caves…

Offbeat

A residential dance community at Kodihalli village near Hesaraghatta, run as a collective of artistes where dance is a way of life. Visitors can take a self-guided tour…

Entry ₹150 per person

Temples

Temples · Bengaluru Rural

A Dravidian-style temple in Devanahalli town with a sanctum, hall and front pavilion inside a large enclosure and a tall gateway tower on the east. Its outer walls…

Hills & Trekking · Bengaluru Rural

A small, flat-topped hill in Kundana village, Devanahalli taluk, shaped like a squirrel and about 61 m high. Kempegowda I built a four-round fort here in 1537; the…

Hills & Trekking

A rock-climbing wall at Yedumadu off the Kanakapura Highway, about 13 m at its highest, with nine easy top-rope routes on bubbly, holed rock. It faces west, so climb…

Hills & Trekking

Amusement

An amusement park and film studio complex at Bidadi near Bengaluru, long used for Kannada film shoots. Vels Group took it over in 2023 and renamed it Jollywood, with…

Waterfalls · Bengaluru Urban

Muthyalamaduvu, also known as Pearl Valley, is a tourist attraction located near Anekal in Bengaluru Urban district, about 40 km from Bangalore. It is known for a…

Offbeat · Bengaluru South

A dam across the Arkavathi river about 18 km from Ramanagara, built for irrigation and now also supplying water to Magadi town. Kayaking is run on the reservoir;…

Lakes

Offbeat

One of India's oldest wine producers, founded in 1988, with about 400 acres of vineyards on the Bengaluru side. Visitors can book guided vineyard and winery tours, wine…

Best season: November to March for weather; February to April is harvest (grape stomping)

Heritage · Bengaluru South

A temple to Vishnu as Ranganatha in the historic town of Magadi, about 41 km from Bengaluru, first consecrated by a Chola ruler in the early 12th century. The deity…

Hills & Trekking · Bengaluru South

One of the largest monolith hills in Asia, about 60 km west of Bengaluru, formed by two hills, Karigudda and Biligudda. The steep bare-rock trail climbs past old fort…

Entry ₹250 per person · hard trek

Temples · Bengaluru South

The Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy temple at the foot of Savandurga hill in Magadi taluk, where the idol has been worshipped for many generations.

Hills & Trekking · Bengaluru South

Senapathy Betta, a granite slab in the Ramanagara area with over a dozen single-pitch climbing routes, most of them bolted, graded 5.6 to 5.10. The crag is a 5–10…

Hills & Trekking · Bengaluru Rural

Shivagange is a mountain peak and Hindu pilgrimage center near Dobbaspet, in Bengaluru Rural district. It is shaped as a shivalinga and a spring flows near locally…

Offbeat

A forest lake at the edge of the Bannerghatta forest, run by the Karnataka Forest Department and fenced with electric fencing. Crocodiles live in it, and elephants,…

Hills & Trekking · Bengaluru South

A granite rock-climbing area beside the Ramagiri temple in the Ramanagara hills. It lies inside a protected vulture sanctuary and is listed as closed to climbing…

Offbeat · Chikkaballapura

A 112-foot Adiyogi (Shiva) statue at Isha Foundation's Sadhguru Sannidhi near Nandi Hills, about 65 km north of Bengaluru. A video show is projected onto the statue…

Heritage · Chikkaballapura

Bhoganandiswara Temple is part of a twin Hindu temple complex located in Nandi village in Chikkaballapur district, Karnataka. Dating back to the 9th-10th century CE,…

Hills & Trekking · Davanagere

Channagiri has a hill fort which was built around 1770 with a Ranganatha temple inside it, rising to a height of about 200 feet to the west of the town. The fort…

Heritage · Bengaluru Rural

Ghati Subramanya is a Hindu temple situated near Doddaballapura in Karnataka, about 60 km from Bangalore. It is a popular pilgrimage centre uniquely known for housing…

Hills & Trekking

A hill trek near Doddaballapur, about 65-75 km from Bengaluru, to the Halu Chilume Ganga temple, known for the bells placed around it. The trail is about 3.5 km one way…

moderate trek

Hills & Trekking

A short forest hill trek near Ramanagara, about 50 km from Bengaluru, with views of Ramadevara Betta and Uttari Betta from the top. The trail runs through forest with…

easy trek

Lakes · Bengaluru South

A reservoir formed by a dam on the Kanva River, built from 1946 for irrigation and drinking water, in Channapatna taluk. It is a known birdwatching spot, about 60–70 km…

Free entry

Temples

Mandaragiri or Basadi-betta is a Jain pilgrimage located on Mandaragiri Hill in Tumkur district in the Indian state of Karnataka.

Hills & Trekking · Chikkaballapura

A hill station about 60 km from Bengaluru in Chikkaballapur district, best known for sunrise views over the clouds. On top are the Yoga Nandeeshwara temple and Tipu's…

Best season: September to February · Entry ₹20 per person

Hills & Trekking · Chikkaballapura

A rocky hill fort near Chikkaballapura, also called Kalavara Durga, climbed mostly as a pre-dawn trek to watch the sunrise above the clouds. The trail starts behind…

Best season: October to March · Entry ₹250 per person · moderate trek

Temples

Hills & Trekking · Bengaluru South

Revanasiddeshwara Betta, a hill about 935 m high at Avverahalli, 15 km from Ramanagara. It has three temples: Renukamba at the base, Bheemeshwari midway and…

Hills & Trekking

A granite hill about 60 km from Bengaluru topped by the ruins of Makalidurga fort. The trail starts at the Muthurayaswamy temple and, from the top, you can see a lake…

Entry ₹250 per person · moderate trek

Temples

Lingaraja Temple (Odia: [liŋɡɔraːd͡ʒɔ] ) is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva and is one of the oldest temples in Bhubaneswar, the capital of the Indian state of…

Hills & Trekking · Tumakuru

Devarayanadurga is a hill station in Tumakuru district, known for its rocky hills and forests. It is famous for the Yoganarasimha and Bhoganarasimha temples located at…

Hills & Trekking · Chikkaballapura

A quieter hill next to Nandi Hills in Chikkaballapur district, roughly as high as Nandi Hill, with a small temple on top. The trail is rocky with little shade and no…

Best season: October to March · moderate trek

Temples

Thirukkadigai or Sholingapuram is a temple in Sholinghur, a village in Ranipet district of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu.…

Hills & Trekking · Bengaluru South

A rocky hill near Jalamangala village in Ramanagara, about 3,800 ft high, with a small temple to Lord Narayana and the remains of an old fort on top. The climb passes…

Best season: October to March · moderate trek

Hills & Trekking · Kolar

A rocky hill range near Kolar, about 80 km from Bengaluru, known for its volcanic rock formations, caves and the Sri Kashi Vishweshwara temple. Treks start and end at…

Best season: October to March · Entry ₹250 per person · hard trek

Hills & Trekking

Bilikal Ranganatha Swamy Betta is a hill near Kanakapura town in Karnataka, located about 70 km south of Bangalore. Atop the hill is a temple dedicated to Lord…

Lakes

A small reservoir near Chikkaballapura, close to Isha Foundation, surrounded by rocky green hills. A metal bridge runs out over the water, and the spot is good for…

Hills & Trekking · Bengaluru Rural

Hulukadi Betta is a hill located in Doddaballapura taluk of Bengaluru Rural district. It is known for the Veerabhadra Swamy temple situated at its peak.

Hills & Trekking · Tumakuru

Hutridurga is a fortified hill in Tumakuru district, located about 65 km west of Bengaluru. The ruined fort was built by Kempegowda in the 16th century.

Hills & Trekking · Bengaluru South

Kabbaldurga is a ruined fort in Bengaluru South district, about 75 km from Bangalore. It is a popular, relatively easy trekking destination known for night trekking and…

easy trek

Offbeat

A hill 6–7 km from Kaiwara known for its cave temples of Ambaji Durga, Ananta Padmanabha and Chenna Keshava, which can be seen from the hilltop.

Hills & Trekking · Chikkaballapura

A twin-peaked hill near Hariharapura village in Chikkaballapur district, about 70 km from Bengaluru, popular for night and sunrise treks. The summit has a temple…

Best season: October to March · moderate trek

Hills & Trekking · Tumakuru

A hill near Masanipalya village in Tumakuru district, about 18 km from Tumkur, with remnants of fort walls and a Hanuman temple at the peak. It is a moderate trek with…

moderate trek

Lakes · Tumakuru

A man-made reservoir beside Mandaragiri hill, the Jain pilgrimage hill near Tumakuru, held by an earthen bund about 750 m long and about 1.5 km across. It can be seen…