Hyderabad, Karnataka and Goa itinerary: 11 days in Hyderabad, Chikmagalur, Hampi, Badami and Goa
11 days · 10 nights · 6 stays · sample itinerary
Eleven days from Hyderabad to the coast: Golconda and the Salar Jung Museum, a flight to Bengaluru, Chikmagalur’s coffee country and the temples of Belur and Halebidu, the Vijayanagara ruins at Hampi, Aihole, Pattadakal and Badami, and Goa.
It is a sample itinerary — a starting point, not a timetable. Each night has a place to stay, named where one is known; check that it is open and has room before you book. No flight or train is named, and the times in the plan are placeholders. Open it in the planner and it becomes a trip of your own, starting a month from today, with the places to see already on their days.
Day by day
Day 1
Stay: Taj Falaknuma Palace, Hyderabad
2 nights
Day 2
Golconda Fort, with a guide
Salar Jung Museum
Day 3
Hyderabad → Bengaluru
Flight · 09:00–10:15
Times approximate.
Stay: Place to stay in Bengaluru (not named — choose one), Bengaluru
1 night
Dodda Basavana Gudi, the Bull Temple
Day 4
Bengaluru → Chikmagalur
Journey · 09:00–15:00
How is not stated. Times approximate.
Stay: Place to stay in Chikmagalur (not named — choose one), Chikmagalur
2 nights
A coffee estate walk
Day 5
Belur and Halebidu temples
Shravanabelagola
Day 6
Chikmagalur → Hampi
By road · 08:00–15:00
About seven hours by road. Times approximate.
Stay: Boulders Resort, Hampi
2 nights
Day 7
The ruins and temples of Hampi
Day 8
Hampi → Badami
Journey · 09:00–13:00
How is not stated. Times approximate.
Stay: Place to stay in Badami (not named — choose one), Badami
1 night
Aihole, Pattadakal and the Badami temples
Day 9
Badami → Panjim
By road · 09:00–16:00
Through the Western Ghats. Times approximate.
Stay: Ahilya by the Sea, Panjim
2 nights
Day 10
The churches of Old Goa
Day 11
Panjim → Hyderabad
Journey · 10:00–18:00
Added so the trip ends where it began, in Hyderabad: change it to wherever you go next. How is not stated. Times approximate.
How the route runs
Two nights in Hyderabad, then a flight to Bengaluru. West to Chikmagalur’s coffee estates and the temples of Belur, Halebidu and Shravanabelagola, then a long drive north to the ruins of Hampi. A night at Badami for Aihole and Pattadakal, and through the Western Ghats to Goa.
What is left for you to fill in
No flight or train is named, and every time in the plan is a placeholder, marked approximate: choose the services that suit, and set the drive times with whoever is driving. Where a journey says how is not stated, choose how. The places to see have no time of day; add one if it helps.
A stay that reads "not named" is a night with no place to stay yet: choose one. A stay whose note lists others has alternatives worth comparing. Check that each is open and has room for your dates before you book.