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On the way up.
Distance
310 km
From Mysore
Time
About 6.5 to 7 hr
Via Chamarajanagar, Coimbatore and Nenmara
Starting from
₹ 12000
3 days, 900 km, Dzire
Maruti Swift Dzire
NORMALAC4 Seats
₹10,826 ₹13,036
+ ₹1886 (Taxes & Charges)
Toyota Etios
NORMALAC4 Seats
₹12,572 ₹15,150
+ ₹2200 (Taxes & Charges)
Toyota Innova
LUXURYAC6 Seats
₹16,114 ₹19,429
+ ₹2829 (Taxes & Charges)
Toyota Innova Crysta
LUXURYAC7 Seats
₹17,860 ₹21,543
+ ₹3143 (Taxes & Charges)
Toyota Innova Hycross
LUXURYAC7 Seats
₹23,098 ₹27,886
+ ₹4086 (Taxes & Charges)
Start
60 km
135 km
205 km
245 km
285 km
310 km
Your door
The cab reaches your door at 6:30 am, anywhere in Mysuru: home, a hotel near the palace or the railway station. Nelliyampathy is a hill stay above Pollachi, about 310 km away, and the drive takes most of the day with two meals on the road. Before a Tamil Nadu trip, glance at the news the night before, because the Kaveri water dispute sometimes brings demonstrations and bandh days in Mysore. The car takes the Nanjangud road south, and breakfast is at Chamarajanagar, about 60 km out, the last big town in Karnataka.
Breakfast
Chamarajanagar is a quick breakfast for a car of four, 15 minutes at a main road hotel while the driver fills the tank. The town is the headquarters of Karnataka's southernmost district, and the Chamarajeshwara temple with its tall gopura stands in the middle of it. Yelandur, with its temple of stone chains, lies about 20 km on the Kollegal side, a detour for a free day rather than this one. Use the restroom before you leave; the road ahead climbs into the Hasanur forest and then winds down the Dhimbam ghat, with no shops.
Tea after the ghat
The Dhimbam ghat drops in 27 hairpins to Bannari, and Sathyamangalam, about 135 km from Mysore, is the first Tamil Nadu town after it. A ten minute tea and restroom halt is enough for the cab. The forest you just crossed is part of the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve, a corridor for elephants between the Western and Eastern Ghats. Bhavani river water keeps the fields green around the town. From here the cab keeps to NH948 and reaches Coimbatore, the lunch stop, in about 70 km.
Lunch
Coimbatore is the lunch stop, a city of about 427 m on the Noyyal river. A cab can try a street dish here: kaalaan, mushroom deep fried and then simmered in a spicy gravy, sold at evening stalls and some hotels. For lunch itself, rice meals on a banana leaf are the old custom. The driver takes the Pollachi Road exit after lunch. If anyone needs a gift, a Kovai Kora cotton saree, a Geographical Indication of the city, is light to carry, but shopping in traffic is best kept short.
Pollachi
Pollachi is about 40 km south of Coimbatore and the market town for this whole belt, trading jaggery, vegetables and cattle. Coconut palms and paddy run up to the edge of the Anamalai hills, and the countryside is a favourite of film crews. A cab can stop ten minutes for tender coconut or skip the halt. The Masani Amman temple, one of the main temples of the area, is near the town if someone wants darshan. From Pollachi the road heads west into Kerala towards Nenmara, about 40 km on.
Foot of the hills
Nenmara is a Kerala town in paddy country, the last town on the plains before the climb to Nelliyampathy. The cab usually drives through. If anyone in the car feels unwell on bends, this is the place to stop for five minutes, before the ghat, not halfway up it. The ghat road begins a few km beyond the town, with many bends but a gentle gradient for a car. Nelliyampathy is about 25 km on, so the climb is the last part of the day.
Estate drop
Nelliyampathy is a spread of tea, coffee and cardamom estates rather than a town, and shops are few. The cab drops you at the estate or resort; some estate roads are rough, so send the name and the location pin before the trip and we check that a car reaches the door. Most stays serve Kerala meals, so ask them to keep dinner ready. Evenings are cool up here, so keep a sweater handy. The driver stays close by and can take you round the viewpoints the next day.
Need a Mysore to Nelliyampathy cab for a couple or a family heading to a tea estate stay? A car takes the long road via Coimbatore with fewer stops and climbs the hills by mid afternoon. Pickup from home, a Mysuru hotel or the airport. Get a Mysore to Nelliyampathy taxi through cab rental in Mysore.
Route | One way | Nelliyampathy and back | Time by cab |
|---|---|---|---|
Mysore to Nelliyampathy via Chamarajanagar, Coimbatore and Nenmara | About 310 km | About 620 km | About 6.5 to 7 hr with stops |
Round trip is about 620 km, billed as 3 days, 900 km. A Mysore to Nelliyampathy one way taxi can be quoted on request. AC only. Tolls, parking, the Tamil Nadu and Kerala permits and GST are charged extra. A car's km rate pays for fuel, our driver and AC; driver allowance is extra each day.
Vehicle | Rate per km | 3 days, 900 km | 4 days, 1,200 km | 5 days, 1,500 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
₹12 | ₹12,000 | ₹16,000 | ₹20,000 | |
₹14 | ₹13,800 | ₹18,400 | ₹23,000 | |
₹18 | ₹17,400 | ₹23,200 | ₹29,000 | |
₹20 | ₹19,200 | ₹25,600 | ₹32,000 |
Totals are the km fare plus the day driver allowance. Extra: night driver allowance (₹400 a night), tolls, parking, Tamil Nadu permit and 5% GST. Shared by 7, 4 days in the Toyota Innova Crysta is about ₹3,660 a person.
Two to four: Swift Dzire or Toyota Etios. Up to seven, or rough estate roads: Innova Crysta. Seven to twelve travellers fit the Mysore to Nelliyampathy tempo traveller.
Party of 18? The Mysore to Nelliyampathy mini bus takes everyone. Every car we run 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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5/5
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6/11/2025 Bangalore
5/5
Travelled to Bangalore
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6/11/2025 Bangalore
5/5
Nelliyampathy is about 310 km from Mysore by road, so about 620 km there and back. The cab goes by Chamarajanagar, the Dhimbam ghat, Sathyamangalam and Coimbatore, then south to Pollachi and into Kerala at Nenmara for the climb. Plan about 6.5 to 7 hours with breakfast and lunch. The last 25 km after Nenmara are a hill road, driven slowly.
They are extra. Tolls, parking, permits and GST are added at actual cost.
Only if the driver drives late at night; then a night allowance is added. You see it in the quote first. The night bata is ₹400.
Sure. A written one way quote follows once you send the date.
Most, yes. For rough estate roads, take the Innova Crysta.
Innova Crysta. See cab rental in Mysore.
After the rains, when the plains are green and the roads are dry. Pollachi gets most of its rain, about 1,274 mm a year, in the southwest monsoon, and the Coimbatore side gets the northeast rains in October and early November too. In those weeks the Dhimbam ghat and the Nelliyampathy climb are wet and slow, so we start earlier and keep the hill roads for daylight.
Yes. The cab leaves Mysore at 6:30 am and, with breakfast at Chamarajanagar and lunch in Coimbatore, reaches the estates by mid afternoon. That leaves light for the climb from Nenmara, which is the only slow part. The return works the same way: leave the estate after breakfast, and you are home for dinner. Book at least two nights at the top so the trip is not all driving.
