Mysore to Bylakuppe Golden Temple Cab and Taxi with Driver
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Distance
85 km
From Mysore
Time
About 1.5 hr
Via Bilikere, Hunsur and Periyapatna
Starting from
₹ 4000
Same-day return, Dzire
Maruti Swift Dzire
NORMALAC4 Seats
₹3,842 ₹4,579
+ ₹629 (Taxes & Charges)
Toyota Etios
NORMALAC4 Seats
₹4,424 ₹5,283
+ ₹733 (Taxes & Charges)
Toyota Innova
LUXURYAC6 Seats
₹5,638 ₹6,743
+ ₹943 (Taxes & Charges)
Toyota Innova Crysta
LUXURYAC7 Seats
₹6,220 ₹7,448
+ ₹1048 (Taxes & Charges)
Toyota Innova Hycross
LUXURYAC7 Seats
₹7,966 ₹9,562
+ ₹1362 (Taxes & Charges)
Start
25 km
45 km
75 km
85 km
Pickup at your door
The car picks you up at home, at a hotel near the palace, at the railway station, at the bus stand or at Mysore airport in Mandakalli. It joins the ring road and turns west at the Hinkal flyover onto the Hunsur road. The Golden Temple is only about 85 km off, so a start around 8 is plenty, and four people still reach the gate well before the midday prayers. Most shops and restaurants in Mysore shut before 10 pm, so if you want to shop on the way back, ask the driver to keep the return early.
Drive on
Bilikere comes up about 25 km out, and its name means white tank, after a 100 acre tank whose water looked pale. A car has no reason to halt. The four lane stretch of NH275 west of Mysore runs up to here, and the KR Nagar road leaves under a big overhead board. If the family wants a short climb, Gommatagiri with its Bahubali statue is a few minutes off the highway, about 75 to 90 steps up, and makes an easy half hour detour. Otherwise the cab rolls on to Hunsur, about 20 km ahead.
Tea and fuel
Hunsur is the first proper town, about 45 km from Mysore on the Lakshmana Tirtha river. A car stops here for 15 minutes: tea, the restroom and fuel if the tank needs it. The town lives on teak and tobacco, and the leaf is sold at an auction yard in Kattemalalavadi, a short 5 km detour that only the curious make. Keen on Tibetan monasteries? A smaller settlement, Rabgayling at Gurupura, is about 12 km from Hunsur. Most people save it for another day and carry on to Bylakuppe, 40 km ahead.
Drive on
Periyapatna, also written Piriyapatna, is the taluk town that Bylakuppe belongs to, so the Tibetan camps are only about 10 km from here. A car usually keeps going. If your group likes a hard climb, Bettadapura hill and its Mallikarjuna shrine lie 10 to 15 km to the north, but the roughly 3,000 steps need half a day, so keep it for a separate trip. Fill water bottles here if you forgot at Hunsur, because the next stretch is short and the monastery gate comes up soon.
Monastery drop
The car drops you near the Namdroling gate at Camp 4, about an hour and a half after leaving Mysore. The temple is open roughly from 7 or 9 in the morning to 6 in the evening, with prayers at about 1 pm, so time your walk round for that. Walk clockwise round the stupas and turn the prayer wheels the same way. For lunch, the small Tibetan eateries near the gate serve momos, thukpa and thenthuk. Autos rarely turn up inside the settlement, so the cab stays with you for the hop from one camp to the next.
Need a Mysore to Bylakuppe Golden Temple taxi for the family, four to seven people? This page has the Mysore to Bylakuppe Golden Temple Cab route, the stops on the way and the fare per car. The other name for the Golden Temple is Namdroling Monastery. Our cab picks you up at the suburban bus stand or hotels on JLB Road and Nazarbad. Mysore is Mysuru on the new signboards. Four of you take a Dzire or Etios; six or seven take an Innova Crysta. Tejas Tours & Travels has run cab rental in Mysore since 2009.
Route | One way | Bylakuppe Golden Temple and back | Time by cab |
|---|---|---|---|
Mysore to Bylakuppe Golden Temple via Bilikere, Hunsur and Periyapatna | About 85 km | About 170 km | About 1.5 hr with stops |
A Mysore to Bylakuppe Golden Temple day trip by cab is billed at 300 km. Fuel, AC and our driver come with the rate. A Mysore to Bylakuppe Golden Temple one way taxi is priced on request. Every extra day is another 300 km. The allowance for the driver is ₹400 each day; parking, tolls, permits and GST are extra at cost. AC only.
Vehicle | Rate per km | 1 day, 300 km | 2 days, 600 km |
|---|---|---|---|
₹12 | ₹4,000 | ₹8,000 | |
₹14 | ₹4,600 | ₹9,200 | |
₹18 | ₹5,800 | ₹11,600 | |
₹20 | ₹6,400 | ₹12,800 |
Totals are the km fare plus the day driver allowance. Extra: night driver allowance (₹400 a night), tolls, parking and 5% GST. Shared by 7, 2 days in the Toyota Innova Crysta is about ₹1,830 a person.
Cars by group size: Up to 4 people: Swift Dzire or Toyota Etios. 5 to 7 people, or four with big bags: Innova Crysta. If you are 8 to 12, see the Mysore to Bylakuppe Golden Temple tempo traveller.
Travelling with older people and more bags? See the Mysore to Bylakuppe Golden Temple Urbania. The full car list is on cab rental in Mysore.
Cancellation: no charge more than 72 hours before pickup; see the cancellation policy for the rest.
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6/11/2025 Bangalore
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6/11/2025 Bangalore
5/5
Travelled to Bangalore
Hired for day-out trip, It was very pleasant and comfortable journey, with good driver's behaviour and l may strongly suggest Tejas travels for better and comfortable family trip
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6/11/2025 Bangalore
5/5
Travelled to Bangalore
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6/11/2025 Bangalore
5/5
Bylakuppe Golden Temple is about 85 km from Mysore one way, so about 170 km for the round trip. The road is the Hunsur road, NH275, through Bilikere, Hunsur and Periyapatna, and the monastery lies a little before Kushalnagar. By cab the drive takes about an hour and a half, with a short tea stop at Hunsur.
Yes. Ask for a Mysore to Bylakuppe Golden Temple one way cab quote with your date; you get km and fare as a written quote.
No, they are separate. GST, tolls, parking and any permit are charged at actual.
Around 8:00 am, and you reach Bylakuppe Golden Temple with the day still ahead. A car to Bylakuppe is quicker than the bigger vehicles, so the driver can wait for a late riser.
A night allowance is charged only for late night driving. On our Mysore card that is ₹400 a night.
An Innova Crysta fits six and their bags for Bylakuppe. Here it works out to ₹6,000 for 300 km at ₹20/km, plus ₹400 driver allowance. All our cars are on cab rental in Mysore.
Dasara falls in September or October, and Mysore gets very crowded, with one way rules round the palace. On Vijayadashami in 2024 and 2025, vehicles were barred from entering the city by the Hunsur road and other roads from 6 am to midnight. Leaving early is fine, but plan the return to reach before evening on festival days, or check the Mysore traffic advisory first.
Yes. The ride is short, roughly ninety minutes with a tea stop at Hunsur, and the car drops elders right at the gate. Because the monasteries spread over a large compound and autos are hard to find, the cab ferries elders from one camp to another rather than making them walk. Simple meals are served in the camp at fixed times.
