Mysore to Karkala Cab and Taxi with Driver
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Gommateshwara Statue
Plan an hour; parking is easy for a car.
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The car drops you at the gate. Keep forty minutes.
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About forty minutes; the car waits close.
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Keep an hour.
Varanga Kere Basadi
Plan forty minutes; parking is easy for a car.
Distance
275 km
From Mysore
Time
About 6.5 to 7 hr
Via KR Nagar, Mudigere and Ujire
Starting from
₹ 8000
2 days, 600 km, Dzire
Maruti Swift Dzire
NORMALAC4 Seats
₹7,334 ₹8,807
+ ₹1257 (Taxes & Charges)
Toyota Etios
NORMALAC4 Seats
₹8,498 ₹10,217
+ ₹1467 (Taxes & Charges)
Toyota Innova
LUXURYAC6 Seats
₹10,876 ₹13,086
+ ₹1886 (Taxes & Charges)
Toyota Innova Crysta
LUXURYAC7 Seats
₹12,040 ₹14,495
+ ₹2095 (Taxes & Charges)
Toyota Innova Hycross
LUXURYAC7 Seats
₹15,532 ₹18,724
+ ₹2724 (Taxes & Charges)
Start
40 km
115 km
180 km
200 km
240 km
275 km
Pickup at your door
Karkala lies on the coast side of the Western Ghats, about 275 km away, so the car picks you up early, at home, at a palace side hotel, at the station or at the Mandakalli airport. Families who like crafts can note that Mysore is known for rosewood inlay and gold foil Mysore paintings; the shops are open on your return evening. We leave by the Hunsur road and branch north at Bilikere for KR Nagar and Hassan. Plan about 6.5 to 7 hours of driving, and the ghat in daylight.
Tea stop
KR Nagar is a riverside paddy town about 40 km from Mysore, and a car needs only ten minutes here for tea. The bakeries sell Osmania biscuits and karjoora cake, a small date cake, both easy to eat on the move. If you return this way with time to spare, the Lakshmana Tirtha temple among paddy fields, about 5 km out on the Mysore road, is a calm place to stop. Holenarasipura and Hassan lie ahead on a quiet state highway.
Breakfast and fuel
Hassan, around 115 km from Mysore, is where the car takes breakfast and a full tank. Twenty minutes covers a plate of akki rotti and a strong Malnad coffee for four. Hassan is at about 950 m and is the point where most coast bound traffic leaves NH75 or carries on west to Sakleshpur and the Shiradi ghat. Our route goes the Belur and Mudigere way instead, towards the Charmadi ghat, which is shorter for Karkala.
Lunch
Lunch is at Mudigere, a coffee town at about 970 to 990 m, around 180 km from Mysore. Thirty minutes is enough for a family meal of rice with akki rotti or kadubu. Coffee powder and black pepper from the estates are worth buying here. The driver fills fuel before the descent. Kottigehara, at the head of the Charmadi ghat, is about 16 km on, and after that the road drops towards the coast in a series of hairpins.
Ghat road
From Kottigehara, at about 960 m, the Charmadi ghat runs about 25 km down towards Ujire with 12 hairpin bends. This is part of NH73, the Mangalore to Tumakuru highway. The car takes it in low gear, and anyone who feels the bends should sit in front and look ahead. In past monsoons landslides have closed the ghat for repairs, and the district has also ordered night bans, one from 7 pm to 7 am, so we plan to cross in daylight and check the news before leaving.
Tea stop
Ujire, at the foot of the ghat, is the first coastal town and a good fifteen minute tea halt. The road splits here, one branch to Dharmasthala about 8 km away, another to Belthangady and Mangaluru. The food changes too, to coastal Tulu dishes such as neer dosa, goli baje and Mangalore buns. Ujire is home to the SDM college and hospital. Karkala is about 35 km on, on the road south through Belthangady taluk.
Arrival
About 6.5 to 7 hours of driving bring the car into Karkala, and the driver takes you straight to your hotel. Black granite shows everywhere here, in walls, steps and hill faces, which is how the town got its name, from the Kannada for black stone. It sits barely above sea level at the foot of the ghats, so expect warm, humid evenings. Supper is coastal, neer dosa with a fish curry and rice. Trains leave from Udupi, and flights from Mangalore's Bajpe airport.
Booking a Mysore to Karkala cab for a small family to see the Gommateshwara statue on the hill? Karkala is roughly 275 km away, via Hassan, Mudigere and the Charmadi ghat. Our Mysore to Karkala taxi comes from cab rental in Mysore, with drivers who know this road. The car to Karkala picks you up at Mysore Junction railway station or your house in Kuvempunagar.
Route | One way | Karkala and back | Time by cab |
|---|---|---|---|
Mysore to Karkala via KR Nagar, Mudigere and Ujire | About 275 km | About 550 km | About 6.5 to 7 hr with stops |
Karkala is about 550 km of driving, so we bill 2 days, which is 600 km at 300 km each day. The per km rate includes fuel, AC and the driver. Mysore to Karkala one way taxi: one way on request, quoted with the km in writing. Every one is AC. For a two-day trip, the cab is the quickest way to do Mysore to Karkala. Extra: ₹400 per day for the driver, and GST, tolls, parking and permits at cost.
Vehicle | Rate per km | 2 days, 600 km | 3 days, 900 km | 4 days, 1,200 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
₹12 | ₹8,000 | ₹12,000 | ₹16,000 | |
₹14 | ₹9,200 | ₹13,800 | ₹18,400 | |
₹18 | ₹11,600 | ₹17,400 | ₹23,200 | |
₹20 | ₹12,800 | ₹19,200 | ₹25,600 |
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, 3 days in the Toyota Innova Crysta is about ₹2,740 a person.
Four travellers: Swift Dzire or Toyota Etios. Five to seven of you: Innova Crysta. 7 to 12 people? See the Mysore to Karkala tempo traveller.
A group of ten with older people wanting more comfort? See the Mysore to Karkala Force Urbania, or Force Urbania on rent in Mysore. A big party of twenty fits the Mysore to Karkala mini bus.
Cancellation: no charge more than 72 hours before pickup; see the cancellation policy for the rest.
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6/11/2025 Bangalore
5/5
Travelled to Bangalore
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6/11/2025 Bangalore
5/5
Travelled to Bangalore
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6/11/2025 Bangalore
5/5
Travelled to Bangalore
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Jai Kumar
6/11/2025 Bangalore
5/5
Karkala is about 275 km from Mysore one way, about 550 km for the round trip. The cab goes via KR Nagar and Hassan on SH57, then Mudigere, down the Charmadi ghat to Ujire, and on to Karkala. By car it takes about 6.5 to 7 hours of driving with short halts.
A night allowance for the driver applies only if the drive runs late into the night. Our card says ₹400 per night.
Yes. The driver waits at each place; local km there are added at the same rate.
An Innova Crysta. The full car list is on cab rental in Mysore. Six and their luggage fit for Karkala.
Sure. A written one way quote follows once you send the date.
No, they are separate. You pay tolls, parking, permits and GST at actual, with receipts.
Usually yes, but landslides have closed it for repairs in past monsoons, and night bans have been ordered. From June to September we check the status the evening before. If it is closed, the cab goes round via Shiradi, which adds time. October to February is the easiest season for the drive to Karkala.
We plan the ghat for daylight. The Chikkamagaluru DC has ordered night traffic bans on Charmadi in some monsoons, one from 7 pm to 7 am, and the bends are harder in the dark. On the return, leave Karkala after lunch so the car climbs the ghat before sunset and reaches Mudigere in light.
