2 DAY JUNGLE SAFARI AND MYSORE PALACE TOUR

An action-packed day tour where the journey is as exciting as the destinations.

Typical itinerary:

Stop At: Ramanagara

We believe food is an integral part of an Indian cultural experience; hence we start our tour early and detour from the highway to visit a traditional eatery serving authentic local breakfast. Here our accompanying guide will take you through a sumptuous culinary experience.

Duration: 45 minutes

Stop At: Silk Cocoon Market

We visit India's largest silk cocoon market - a sight to behold. From our accompanying expert guide, learn the history of the famed Mysore silk and the complex stages of creating a silk garment from scratch.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Keshava Temple, Somnathpur

We get off the highway for an extended detour through lush countryside to reach this stunning Hindu temple( a ruin) from 1268 AD. It is nominated as a UNESCO heritage site and awaiting accreditation. Some of humankind's most exquisite stone carvings and sculptures are here. Our accompanying expert guide will introduce its history, Hinduism, its pantheon of gods, and the context of each beautiful carving.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Mysuru/Mysore Palace

We explore this bejeweled palace, among the most visited sites in India and the home of one of the wealthiest individuals in the world in its heyday – the Maharaja of Mysore. From our accompanying expert guide, learn about the Wodeyar rulers and their incredible contributions to putting this region on the global map as we leisurely survey and explore the interiors & exteriors of this dazzling palace.

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Stop At: Devaraja Market, Mysore

Our accompanying expert guide will take you through a stroll inside an 1880s market stuck in a time warp. As you take a walk back in time, marvel at the sights, smells and sounds of the shops & people in the bazaar selling the choicest fruits, flowers, vegetables, bangles and local produce such as Jaggery, Attar, Masalas etc.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Srirangapatna

From Mysore, we drive to the historic river island of Srirangapatna. Here we break for a relaxed and sumptuous lunch at a picturesque setting by the gurgling waters of the River Cauvery.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Dariya Daulat Palace - Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace, Srirangapatna

Our final stop is the exquisite 1780s wooden palace of Tipu Sultan, where every inch of its interiors has delicate frescoes and murals of evocative battle scenes, floral and geometric patterns and portraits. Our accompanying expert guide will provide context to each hand painted artwork and regale you with stories of the valiant efforts of this ruler, the Tiger of Mysore, against the colonial powers of the time.

Duration: 45 minutes

Hampi: Stones, Stories & Sacred Silence

A 2-Day Journey into the Soul of India's Greatest Lost Kingdom
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The World That Time Forgot
Before Rome fell, before the Renaissance bloomed, a city rose on the banks of the Tungabhadra that stunned every traveller who laid eyes on it. Portuguese merchants wrote home in disbelief. Arab traders ran out of words. Italian explorers simply called it the greatest city on earth. This was Vijayanagara — the City of Victory — and today it sleeps beneath a boulder-strewn, otherworldly landscape, waiting for those curious enough to find it.
Hampi isn't a ruins trip. It's a reckoning — with scale, with beauty, with the sheer audacity of what human civilisation once built and lost.
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Day One — Arrival in Another World
Your journey begins before dawn, slipping out of Bangalore as the city stirs. After a traditional breakfast at a beloved highway stopover, the landscape begins its slow, extraordinary transformation — flat Deccan plains giving way to a terrain that looks sculpted by giants: rust-red boulders stacked impossibly high, banana groves threading between ancient walls, the glint of a sacred river in the distance.
This afternoon, Hampi doesn't ease you in gently. It overwhelms you immediately.
You'll enter through the Virupaksha Temple — not a monument frozen in time, but a living, breathing place of worship that has stood without interruption for over a thousand years. Priests chant. Elephants bless. Pilgrims mill about beneath a towering gopuram that has watched empires rise and crumble around it.
Climb Hemakuta Hill as the afternoon light turns golden — a terrace of forgotten shrines and early Vijayanagara temples where most visitors simply don't go, offering a panoramic hush that the crowded main temple can never give you.
Then come the giants. The Sasivekalu Ganesha — named for a mustard seed, which is what his belly is said to contain — sits serenely within a small pavilion, carved from a single boulder with remarkable refinement. Not far away, the Kadalekalu Ganesha (named for a Bengal gram, visible in his rounded stomach) is larger still, one of the biggest Ganesha figures in the region, tucked quietly against a hillside. These are the Ganeshas Hampi does not put on its brochures. They should.

Come face-to-face with the Lakshmi Narasimha — a monolithic figure of terrifying serenity, carved from a single boulder, its sheer scale something photographs simply cannot prepare you for.
At the Hazara Rama Temple, read the walls like a book. Every inch of stone is carved with a narrative — armies, dancers, horses, ceremonies — a visual epic of a kingdom at its most confident and alive.
End the day at Malyavanta Raghunatha Temple Sunset Point, a spot quietly known to those who seek it out, where the boulders glow amber and the landscape stretches into myth. Dinner and overnight rest at your hotel, with the stars and the silence doing the rest.

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Day Two — The River, the Ruins & the Royal Quarter
If the morning sky is clear, there are few finer ways to begin a day than walking the banks of the Tungabhadra — the sacred river that gave this civilisation its lifeblood. Watch fishing boats drift past ancient bathing ghats. Feel the strange, tender intimacy of a place that once fed an empire.
Then, the masterpiece. The Vijaya Vittala Temple complex is where Vijayanagara's ambition peaked. The iconic stone chariot. The Musical Pillars — each one ringing a different note when struck. The vast ruined bazaar where once merchants sold diamonds by the fistful. This is the Hampi that haunts you long after you leave.
At the Lotus Mahal, pause and consider the puzzle of it — an elegant fusion of Hindu and Islamic architecture, built not for gods or kings, but perhaps simply for beauty's own sake. Nearby, the Elephant Stables stand with a grandeur that makes you acutely aware of just how different this world once was.
The Royal Enclosure is where power lived. The Mahanavami Dibba — a ceremonial platform of extraordinary carvings — once hosted ten-day festivals that drew visitors from across the known world. The Stepwell and Queen's Bath speak of daily royal life with an intimacy that larger monuments never can.
After a traditional lunch, we begin the long, satisfied drive back to Bangalore — carrying the particular quiet that only ancient places leave behind.

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Hampi is not a place you visit. It's a place that visits you — and doesn't entirely leave.