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Karnataka travel guides
49 complete guides covering 508 places in Karnataka, with honest pacing, maps, sources and advice for travelling with parents.
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- Agumbe9 placesA small hill village in the Western Ghats known for extraordinary monsoon rain…
- Aihole12 placesA quiet river village scattered with temples from the earliest days of Chalukya…
- Badami12 placesRed sandstone cliffs, a green-brown lake and cave temples carved fourteen…
- Bagalkot7 placesA Krishna-basin district town in dry North Karnataka: a base for the Chalukya…
- Ballari5 placesA steel-and-denim city on a plain of black cotton soil, with a granite-hill…
- Bandipur8 placesA tiger reserve on the Mysuru–Ooty road, where elephants cross the highway, a…
- Basavakalyan5 placesThe old Kalyani Chalukya capital: a ruined hill fort, a reformer's shrine and…
- Belagavi10 placesA cool-plateau garrison city with a moated fort, a 13th-century Jain temple…
- Belur and Halebidu10 placesTwo Hoysala capitals, 16 km apart, where soapstone temples carry some of…
- Bengaluru23 placesA garden city in the clouds: temples tucked into rocky outcrops, markets that…
- Bidar12 placesA plateau city of Bahmani gates, domed tombs and silver-inlaid metalwork, quiet…
- BR Hills5 placesA forested hill range on the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border, with a white-rock…
- Chikmagalur22 placesCoffee hills wrapped in mist, quiet trekking trails, and the hum of old estate…
- Chincholi5 placesA small taluk town in north-east Karnataka, close to the Telangana border, and…
- Chitradurga6 placesA town under a boulder-strewn hill fort of seven walls, with cool dryland…
- Coorg24 placesCoffee estates cascade down misty hills where Kodava culture runs deep, a hill…
- Dandeli9 placesA forest-edge river town on the Kali: rafting, hornbills and quiet bamboo…
- Dharmasthala12 placesA river-side temple town in the Western Ghats foothills where Hindu worship…
- Gadag7 placesA modest cotton-belt town with a cluster of Western Chalukya temples, a…
- Gokarna20 placesQuiet beaches, an ancient temple, and a slower pace: a coastal town where…
- Hampi21 placesRuins and temples scattered among giant boulders: the stone city where the…
- Hubballi-Dharwad8 placesTwin cities of commerce and culture, with Chalukya temples, a contested old…
- Jog Falls8 placesIndia's second-highest plunge waterfall on the Sharavati River: thunderous in…
- Kabini8 placesA long reservoir on the edge of Nagarhole forest, where elephants graze the…
- Kalaburagi11 placesA former Bahmani capital on the Deccan plateau: a ruined fort and great mosque…
- Kanakapura7 placesA silk-growing market town south of Bengaluru, and the gateway to the Cauvery's…
- Karwar7 placesA quiet port town at the mouth of the Kali River: calm beaches, a warship…
- Kollur8 placesA pilgrim village at the foot of the Kodachadri hills, where a goddess temple…
- Kudremukh8 placesA horse-faced Western Ghats peak, shola grassland, source rivers and a quiet…
- Kukke Subramanya9 placesA river-side temple village in the Western Ghats foothills, where serpent…
- Male Mahadeshwara Hills5 placesA forested pilgrim hill on the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border: a major Shiva…
- Mangaluru19 placesA coastal city where temples and churches stand side by side, seafood steams on…
- Melukote11 placesA small Vaishnava temple town on a rocky hill above the Kaveri valley: stepped…
- Mudgal5 placesA small Deccan town with a moated frontier fort, Jesuit-era church and the…
- Murudeshwar11 placesA Shiva temple on a headland, a 20-storey gopura and a very tall statue, with…
- Mysuru19 placesA royal city of palaces, hilltop temples and autumn festivals: where…
- Nagarhole7 placesA large tiger reserve in the Western Ghats foothills, entered by the…
- Pattadakal11 placesA quiet river bend where Chalukya builders tried two ways of shaping a Shiva…
- Pavagada6 placesA dry-country taluk town on the Andhra border, with a hill fort above its…
- Raichur6 placesA hot, cotton-growing Deccan city with a hilltop fort of many dynasties, quiet…
- Ranebennur5 placesA cotton-and-jowar market town on the Bengaluru-Hubballi road, with a blackbuck…
- Sakleshpur10 placesCoffee estates, misty ghat ridges and a railway that threads through the hills…
- Shivamogga8 placesA Tunga river town at the edge of the Western Ghats: elephant mornings, Keladi…
- Shravanabelagola12 placesTwo granite hills, one white pond and a statue that has stood for a thousand…
- Sringeri10 placesA river-bank temple town in the Western Ghats foothills, built around the…
- Talakadu8 placesTemples that the Kaveri's sand once swallowed, a river bend, and a quiet…
- Tumakuru9 placesA district town on the Bengaluru-Hubballi road, with granite hill forts…
- Udupi16 placesA coastal temple town where Madhvacharya's ancient monastery fuels pilgrimage…
- Vijayapura12 placesSultanate-era domes, tombs and fort walls on the dry northern Karnataka…