Places near Mysuru

Heritage · Mysuru

Amba Vilas Palace, the seat of the Wadiyar rulers of Mysuru, built between 1897 and 1912 for Maharaja Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV to a design by Henry Irwin in…

Entry ₹100 per adult

Wildlife · Mandya

Karnataka's largest bird sanctuary, a group of six islets in the Kaveri near Srirangapatna, designated a Ramsar site in 2022. Guided boat rides take you past nesting…

Waterfalls

Small cascades formed by a check dam across the Kaveri near Srirangapatna, on the way to the KRS dam about 15 km from Mysuru. Edmuri lies about 500 m east of Balmuri;…

Free entry

Heritage

Srirangapatna or Srirangapattana is a town and headquarters of one of the seven Taluks of Mandya district, in the Indian state of Karnataka. It gets its name from the…

Offbeat · Mandya

A village on the edge of Srirangapatna at the confluence of the Lokapavani and Kaveri rivers, once a centre for jewellery making. It is home to the Sri Nimishamba temple.

Offbeat · Mandya

A 2,697-foot hill about 5 km east of Srirangapatna on the Lokapavani river, topped by a Venkataramanaswamy (Srinivasa) temple built in the time of the Mysore kings. The…

Hills & Trekking · Mandya

A rocky hill near Pandavapura in Mandya district, about 125–130 km from Bengaluru, popular for night treks. It is a short but steep climb over slippery rock faces with…

Best season: October to February · moderate trek

Heritage

The Chennakesava Temple, also referred to as Chennakeshava Temple and Keshava Temple, is a Vaishnava Hindu temple on the banks of River Kaveri at Somanathapura, Mysuru,…

Waterfalls · Mysuru

A waterfall on the Kaveri near Chunchanakatte village, about 14 km from K.R. Nagar in Mysuru district, beside the old Kodanda Rama temple. The temple is unusual for…

Best season: Monsoon

Wildlife · Mandya

A sanctuary in Mandya district declared in 1974 to protect the Indian grey wolf, named after the Melkote temple town on its border. Its two blocks, Mudibetta and…

Waterfalls · Mandya

The twin Shivanasamudra Falls, where the Kaveri splits around Shivanasamudra island: Gaganachukki (90 m) on the western branch and Barachukki (69 m) on the eastern.…

Best season: September to January (July to October for peak flow) · Entry ₹10 per person

Waterfalls · Mandya

Shivanasamudra Falls is a series of segmented waterfalls on the Kaveri river in Mandya district. It consists of two series of drops, named Gagana Chukki and Bhara Chukki.

Wildlife · Kodagu

A national park in Kodagu and Mysuru districts, declared a tiger reserve in 2003 and part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. Its forests, streams and valleys hold…

Offbeat

A remote Jungle Lodges & Resorts camp on the Kaveri, about 6 km upstream of Bheemeshwari, close to Bengaluru but hard to reach.

Wildlife · Chamarajanagar

The Biligiriranga Hills in Chamarajanagar district, where the Eastern and Western Ghats meet, protected as the Biligiri Ranganatha Swamy Temple (BRT) Tiger Reserve.…

Heritage

Shravanabelagola (pronunciation: [ɕɾɐ.ʋɐˈɳɐ bɛ.ɭɐ.go.ɭɐ]) is a town located near Channarayapatna taluk of Hassan district in the Indian state of Karnataka and is 144 km…

Wildlife

The forests along the Kabini river and its backwaters, about 80 km from Mysuru, where the Forest Department runs jeep and boat safaris. From the boat you may see…

Wildlife · Mandya

A small peacock sanctuary (Mayuravana) on the granite hills of Adichunchanagiri in Nagamangala taluk, Mandya district, next to the Adichunchanagiri temple. Religious…

Offbeat · Mandya

A Jungle Lodges & Resorts adventure and nature camp on the Kaveri in Malavalli taluk, Mandya district, about 105 km from Bengaluru. It offers zip-lining, rope walking,…

Best season: August to February (after the monsoon; also best for birdwatching)

Wildlife · Chamarajanagar

A tiger reserve spread across Chamarajanagar and Mysuru districts, set up under Project Tiger in 1973 and part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. Safaris run by bus from…

Entry ₹350 per person

Hills & Trekking · Tumakuru

A rocky trekking hill in Tumakuru district, about 90 km from Bengaluru. The trail starts near Huliyurdurga village, a few minutes' walk from the town centre; there are…

Free entry

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

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

Offbeat · Bengaluru South

A Jungle Lodges & Resorts camp in deciduous forest on the Kaveri, about 102 km from Bengaluru, named after the windy Galibore hillock behind it. Activities include…

Best season: August to February (river full, good birdlife)

Waterfalls · Kodagu

The Irupu Falls, also known as Lakshmana Tirtha Falls, are located in the Brahmagiri Range in the Kodagu district of Karnataka. It is a fresh water cascade and a major…

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

A rocky hill near Kanakapura, also called Karadi Betta, with the Bananthimari Devi temple at its base. The 2.5 km trail is moderately easy but the markings are easy to…

Best season: October to March · 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

Offbeat · Bengaluru South

A small village in Kanakapura taluk where the Arkavathi river joins the Kaveri, about 59 km from Bengaluru. Water sports are run here and basic facilities are…

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…

Waterfalls · Ramanagara

Chunchi Falls is a waterfall on the Arkavathi river, located near Haroshivanahalli in Ramanagara district. The river flows through this region before joining the Kaveri.

Waterfalls · Bengaluru South

Mekedatu is a location along the Kaveri river on the border of Bengaluru South and Chamarajanagar districts, about 110 km from Bengaluru. It is known for a deep, narrow…

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…

Wildlife

A large wildlife sanctuary along the Kaveri river across Mandya, Chamarajanagar and Bengaluru South districts, established in 1987 and enlarged in 2013. On its east it…

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

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

Offbeat · Hassan

The ruins of a Gothic church built by French missionaries in the 1860s, about 2 km from Shettihalli village in Hassan district. Since the Hemavati reservoir was…

Best season: December to May to walk the ruins; July to October to see it partly submerged

Hill Station · Wayanad

A district in north-east Kerala and the state's only plateau, a continuation of the Mysore Plateau set high in the Western Ghats at 700 to 2,100 m. Its headquarters is…

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…

Hill Station · Kodagu

Madikeri, the headquarters of Kodagu (Coorg) district, set among coffee plantations, waterfalls and green hills in the Western Ghats. Raja's Seat is known for sunset…

Best season: October to March

Lakes

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

Hill Station · Nilgiris

The 'Queen of Hill Stations', seat of the Nilgiris district in Tamil Nadu. It is known for its 55-acre Government Botanical Garden (1897), the lake built in 1824, the…

Best season: March to June

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…

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;…

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.

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…

Hill Station · Nilgiris

A hill station in the Nilgiris, named after the Kota people ('mountains of the Kotas'), known for its tea plantations, tea-factory visits and treks such as the…

Best season: December to May

Waterfalls · Kodagu

Abbey Falls, also spelled Abbi Falls, is a waterfall in the Western Ghats of Karnataka. It is located about 8 km from Madikeri.

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

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…

Waterfalls · Kodagu

Chelavara Falls is a natural waterfall formed by a small stream, a tributary of the Kaveri near Cheyyandane village in Karnataka. Due to its depth and dangerous waters,…

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 · 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

Hill Station · Nilgiris

The second-largest hill station in the Nilgiris, known for misty tea plantations and viewpoints such as Dolphin's Nose and Lamb's Rock. Sim's Park hosts an annual fruit…

Best season: October to March

Waterfalls · Kodagu

A waterfall on the Kumaradhara river in the foothills of the Pushpagiri hills, Somwarpet taluk of Kodagu, dropping about 200 feet. It is reached by a short drive and a…

Best season: June to September (nearly dry in summer) · Free entry

Temples

Temples

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

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…

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,…

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…

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…

Offbeat

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.