No guide yetA day on the coffee harvest
Coffee harvest · Chikkamagaluru · 6 hrs
Guide required
Pick cherry alongside the workers between October and February, then follow it through pulping and drying.
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Things to do
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21 activities
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No guide yetA Malnad food trail
Food tour · Chikkamagaluru · 4 hrs
Guide required
Akki rotti, neer dose, kadubu and filter coffee, eaten where the locals eat them, with somebody who can explain what you are eating.
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No guide yetAttigundi waterfalls by jeep
Waterfall hike · Chikkamagaluru · 4 hrs
Jhari Falls, Manikyadhara and the Dattatreya Peetha in one loop off the Baba Budangiri road, on tracks only the jeeps are allowed on.
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No guide yetBaba Budangiri ridge walk
Trekking · Chikkamagaluru · 7 hrs
The long ridge north of Mullayanagiri, walked end to end with the valley on both sides.
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No guide yetBhadra backwaters boat safari
Wildlife safari · Tarikere · 2 hrs
Guide required
A Forest Department boat across the reservoir at dusk, past the river tern islands to the sanctuary shore where the elephants come down to drink.
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No guide yetBhadra wildlife safari
Wildlife safari · Chikkamagaluru · 3 hrs
Guide required
Jeep safari inside the sanctuary with a Forest Department naturalist. Elephant, gaur and 300-odd bird species.
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No guide yetBirding the Bhadra backwaters
Bird watching · Tarikere · 3 hrs
River terns by the thousand in nesting season, hornbills and fish eagles the rest of the year, along the shore and islands of the reservoir.
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No guide yetCharmadi Ghat in the monsoon
Photography tour · Mudigere · 4 hrs
A morning on the ghat road with a photographer who knows which bends to stop at, when the mist is moving and the waterfalls are on the tarmac.
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No guide yetCoffee estate walk and cupping
Coffee & plantation tour · Chikkamagaluru · 3 hrs
Guide required
Two hours under the shade trees learning how arabica and robusta are grown here, then the same estate's coffee tasted side by side.
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No guide yetDeviramma Betta climb
Trekking · Chikkamagaluru · 6 hrs
A long, steady climb up a grassy cone opposite Mullayanagiri, for the best outside view of the whole range.
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No guide yetEttina Bhuja trek
Trekking · Mudigere · 5 hrs
A short, steep climb to a bare rock dome with the coastal plain a kilometre below your feet.
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No guide yetHebbe Falls guided walk
Waterfall hike · Tarikere · 4 hrs
A two-stage fall inside the Bhadra reserve, reached by jeep track and then a short walk over wet rock.
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No guide yetHirekolale Lake at sunset
Sunrise & sunset · Chikkamagaluru · 2 hrs
The town's own sunset spot, ten kilometres out, with the Chandra Drona hills going pink over still water.
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No guide yetKemmanagundi to Z Point
Trekking · Tarikere · 2.5 hrs
An easy hour along a shola-edged ridge from the hill station to a cliff nose over the Bhadra valley, best at first light.
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No guide yetKudremukh peak trek
Trekking · Mudigere · 8 hrs
Guide required
The classic Western Ghats grassland walk: nine kilometres each way through rolling meadow and shola to the horse-face summit.
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No guide yetKyathanamakki sunset by jeep
Sunrise & sunset · Mudigere · 3 hrs
A rough jeep track up to the grassland ridge above Kalasa for the sun going down behind the Kudremukh range.
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No guide yetMullayanagiri sunrise trek
Sunrise & sunset · Chikkamagaluru · 4 hrs
The highest point in Karnataka, climbed in the dark so the last stretch is walked at first light.
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No guide yetNetravati peak trek
Trekking · Mudigere · 6 hrs
Guide required
Kudremukh's grassland without Kudremukh's crowd, climbed from Samse to a ridge that looks across at the horse's face.
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No guide yetSringeri, Horanadu and Kalasa temple circuit
Temple & heritage · Sringeri · 9 hrs
The three great temple towns of the Malnad in a day, through some of the greenest country in the district.
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No guide yetThe quiet Hoysala temples
Temple & heritage · Chikkamagaluru · 8 hrs
Belavadi and Amruthapura in a day: two twelfth-century temples as fine as Belur, with none of the crowd.
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No guide yetWinter birds at Ayyanakere
Bird watching · Kadur · 3 hrs
A dawn walk along the bund of one of Karnataka's oldest tanks, when the wintering ducks and waders are in.
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