Karnataka itinerary: 10 days in Bengaluru, Mysore, Kabini and Coorg
10 days · 9 nights · 4 stays · sample itinerary
Ten days in southern Karnataka: Bengaluru’s old neighbourhoods, the palace and markets of Mysore, three nights at Kabini on the edge of Nagarhole for boat and jeep safaris, and Coorg’s coffee estates.
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: The Leela Palace, Bengaluru
2 nights
Day 2
Malleshwaram: the street-art walk, the flower market and Nandi Theertha temple
Day 3
Bengaluru → Mysore
By road · 09:00–13:00
Times approximate.
Stay: Royal Orchid Metropole, Mysore
2 nights
Mysore Palace
Devaraja Market
Day 4
Chamundi Hill and its temple
Day 5
Mysore → Nagarhole
By road · 09:00–12:00
Times approximate.
Stay: Kuruba Safari Lodge, Nagarhole
3 nights
Boat safari on the Kabini
In the afternoon.
Day 6
Nagarhole jeep safaris, morning and afternoon
Day 7
Coracle ride on the Kabini
Day 8
Nagarhole → Coorg
By road · 09:00–14:00
By road, stopping at Namdroling Monastery in Bylakuppe. Times approximate.
Stay: Coorg Wild Walk by CGH, Coorg
2 nights
Day 9
A coffee estate walk
Early birdwatching walk
Talacauvery
If time allows.
Omkareshwara Temple
If time allows.
Day 10
Coorg → Bengaluru
Journey · 09:00–15:00
The trip ends with departure from Bengaluru. How is not stated. Times approximate.
How the route runs
Two nights in Bengaluru, then by road to Mysore for its palace, market and Chamundi Hill. On to Kabini for three nights of safaris by boat, jeep and coracle, and through Bylakuppe’s Tibetan settlement to Coorg for its coffee estates, before the return to Bengaluru.
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.