Temples

Melukote (Cheluvanarayana Swamy Temple)

📍 Melukote, Pandavapura Taluk, Mandya District

🏘️ Melukote

🚗 About 51 km from Mysuru

Hilltop temple town with the Kalyani tank and Yoganarasimha hill shrine.

Nature

Chunchanakatte Falls

📍 Chunchanakatte, K.R. Nagar Taluk, Mysuru District

🏘️ Chunchanakatte

🚗 About 55 km from Mysuru

Kaveri cascade near K.R. Nagar, beside the Kodanda Rama temple.

Nature

Nagarahole National Park & Tiger Reserve

📍 Kakanakote (Kabini) Safari Gate, SH 33, Antharasanthe, HD Kote Taluk

🏘️ Nagarahole

🚗 About 61 km from Mysuru

Tiger reserve with jeep and bus safaris for tigers, elephants and gaur.

Nature

Kokkrebellur Bird Village

📍 Kokkrebellur, Maddur Taluk, Mandya District

🏘️ Kokkrebellur

🚗 About 70 km from Mysuru

Village where painted storks and pelicans nest in the trees among the houses.

Nature

Gaganachukki Falls (Shivanasamudra)

📍 Shivanasamudra, Malavalli Taluk, Mandya District

🏘️ Shivanasamudra

🚗 About 75 km from Mysuru

Thundering falls on the western branch of the Kaveri at Shivanasamudra.

Nature

Kabini Backwaters

📍 Kabini reservoir, near Karapura and Kabini Dam (Beechanahalli), HD Kote Taluk

🏘️ Kabini

🚗 About 75 km from Mysuru

Vast reservoir between Nagarahole and Bandipur: boat safaris, summer elephant herds, sunsets.

Nature

Bandipur National Park & Tiger Reserve

📍 Bandipur safari reception, Mysuru–Ooty Road (NH 766 / NH 181), Gundlupet Taluk

🏘️ Bandipur

🚗 About 80 km from Mysuru

Tiger reserve on the Mysuru–Ooty road with Forest Department jeep and bus safaris.

Nature

Bharachukki Falls (Shivanasamudra)

📍 Near Shivanasamudra, Kollegal Taluk, Chamarajanagar District

🏘️ Shivanasamudra

🚗 About 80 km from Mysuru

Wide curtain of waterfalls on the eastern branch of the Kaveri, best after the monsoon.

Temples

Himavad Gopalaswamy Betta

📍 Bandipur Tiger Reserve, Gundlupet Taluk, Chamarajanagar District

🏘️ Gundlupet

🚗 About 80 km from Mysuru

Highest peak in Bandipur (about 1,450 m), often misty, topped by the Gopalaswamy (Krishna) temple.

Temples

Namdroling Monastery (Golden Temple), Bylakuppe

📍 Bylakuppe Tibetan settlement, near Kushalnagar

🏘️ Bylakuppe

🚗 About 85 km from Mysuru

Large Tibetan Buddhist monastery with a golden temple and giant gilded Buddha statues.

Heritage

Shravanabelagola (Gommateshwara)

📍 Vindhyagiri hill, Shravanabelagola, Hassan District

🏘️ Shravanabelagola

🚗 About 85 km from Mysuru

Jain pilgrimage town where a 57-ft monolith of Bahubali (about 983 CE) crowns Vindhyagiri hill.

Temples

Biligiri Ranganatha Temple (BR Hills)

📍 Biligiri Rangana Hills, Yelandur Taluk, Chamarajanagar District

🏘️ BR Hills

🚗 About 90 km from Mysuru

Hilltop temple in the Biligiri Ranganatha Swamy Temple tiger reserve, with forest views.

Nature

Kaveri Nisargadhama, Kushalnagar

📍 Off the Mysuru–Madikeri road, near Kushalnagar

🏘️ Kushalnagar

🚗 About 92 km from Mysuru

Bamboo-shaded island on the Kaveri, reached by a hanging bridge.

Nature

Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (Theppakadu)

📍 Theppakadu, Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu

🏘️ Mudumalai

🚗 About 95 km from Mysuru

Tamil Nadu tiger reserve next to Bandipur, with an elephant camp and safaris at Theppakadu.

Nature

Ramadevara Betta

📍 Near Ramanagara town, Ramanagara District

🏘️ Ramanagara

🚗 About 95 km from Mysuru

Rocky hill near Ramanagara with a Rama temple, set in a vulture sanctuary.

Nature

Harangi Dam

📍 Hudgur, near Kushalnagar, Kodagu

🏘️ Kushalnagar

🚗 About 98 km from Mysuru

Dam and reservoir on the Harangi river, a tributary of the Kaveri, near Kushalnagar.

Heritage

St. Anne's Church, Virajpet

📍 Virajpet town, Kodagu

🏘️ Virajpet

🚗 About 100 km from Mysuru

Gothic church with a tall spire, built in 1868 on the site of a church founded in 1792.