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Promenade Beach
Evening walk on the sea wall.
White Town
Old French streets on foot.
Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Quiet visit in town.
Auroville
About 10 km north.
Paradise Beach
Boat from Chunnambar.
Serenity Beach
North of town.
Distance
410 km
From Mysore
Time
About 8.5 hr
Via Kollegal, Salem and Villupuram
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
155 km
210 km
260 km
370 km
410 km
Pickup at your door
Give us the pickup address and the hour, and the car will be there, usually very early for a run of this length. The driver leaves the city on the T Narasipura road, which continues through Kollegal and over MM Hills into Tamil Nadu, then turns east at Salem across the state to the sea. Pondicherry is roughly 410 km off, about eight and a half hours of driving. Kannada gives way to Tamil after the border, so save the hotel address in both scripts if you can.
Breakfast
Breakfast for a car group is at Kollegal, a silk weaving town a little over an hour from home. Twenty minutes is plenty for a meal and a fuel top up. Gundal dam sits about 15 km away, and BR Hills about 25 to 30 km via Yelandur, but the coast is the goal today. From Kollegal the cab follows SH 79 through Kamagere and Hanur, with roughly 95 km of mostly forest road to Mettur.
Lunch by the dam
Lunch is at Mettur, the first town of note inside Tamil Nadu. Forty minutes gives time to eat and to look at the dam, finished in 1934 after nine years of building and still the largest in the state. When summer drains the reservoir, the tops of a sunken church and a stone Nandi come into view. Mettur is called the aluminium city of Tamil Nadu for its plants. Salem is about 55 km on.
Tea in Salem
At Salem the cab stops for tea, and a thattu vadai set, the city's street snack, is worth a try. NH 79 leaves Salem heading east to Ulundurpet, and that is the road the car takes now. Salem gets rain from both monsoons, so the highway can be wet from June on. Top up fuel here; about 200 km of plains lie between Salem and the coast. The driver checks the tyres here.
Drive on
Attur sits where NH 79 meets NH 136, about 50 km past Salem, and the car can go straight through. The town calls itself the Sago City of India for the tapioca pearls made here. An old fort stands in town, and the Kalrayan hills rise to the north east. Muttal waterfalls village lies about 15 km away on the Mullaivadi road, an idea for a return day. The coast is still about 150 km ahead.
Tea and fuel
Villupuram, about 370 km from Mysore, is the last town before Pondicherry, and a fifteen minute tea halt suits a car. It is one of the biggest railway junctions in the state, with five lines, and the old NH 45 between Chennai and Trichy runs through it. The air turns humid here; the town averages about 28.4 deg C through the year. Pondicherry is only about 35 km east. Fill the tank one last time.
Drop at your hotel
The cab reaches Pondicherry about eight and a half hours after leaving Mysore and drops you at the hotel. The old town lanes are better on foot or by bicycle than by car, so the car rests while you explore. For dinner, ask for fried fish or prawn bajji with parotta. Handmade paper and local pottery make light gifts. Chennai is about 160 km north by the East Coast Road if your trip goes on.
Need a Mysore to Pondicherry cab for a few days by the sea? Our Mysore to Pondicherry taxi collects you from home, a Mysuru hotel or the bus stand and takes the shorter road through Mettur and Salem. Ask for cab rental in Mysore from Tejas Tours & Travels.
Route | One way | Pondicherry and back | Time by cab |
|---|---|---|---|
Mysore to Pondicherry via Mettur, Salem and Villupuram | About 410 km | About 820 km | About 8.5 hr with stops |
Pondicherry round trip is around 820 km, billed as three days and 900 km. A Mysore to Pondicherry one way taxi is on request, at ₹2 more per km than a return. AC only. For Pondicherry, driver's allowance is ₹400 each day for a sedan, and tolls, parking, the Tamil Nadu permit and GST are at actual. Pondicherry: fuel, driver and AC are all in the rate per km.
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.
For up to 4: Dzire or Toyota Etios. Five to seven of you: Innova Crysta. For 7 to 12 people, see the Mysore to Pondicherry tempo traveller.
Elders with you? The Mysore to Pondicherry Force Urbania. Bigger family: tempo traveller on rent 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
5/5
Travelled to Bangalore
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Souvik Bhattacharya
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
Kishore Lal
6/11/2025 Bangalore
5/5
Travelled to Bangalore
Booked cab from tejas travels, bangalore to madikeri. Excellent service, driver was very polite and he knows all nook and corner. Overall we enjoyed the trip
Jai Kumar
6/11/2025 Bangalore
5/5
On the odometer Pondicherry comes up at roughly 410 km from a Mysore doorstep, and about 820 km with the return. Your car crosses the MM Hills forest by way of Kollegal to reach Mettur, heads east from Salem through Attur and Villupuram, and meets the sea. A car manages it in around eight and a half hours.
They are not. Pondicherry, 3 days, 900 km: Dzire ₹12,000 Etios ₹13,800 Innova ₹17,400 Innova Crysta ₹19,200. On top come the driver bata, tolls, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry entry tax, parking and GST.
Innova Crysta. All cars on cab rental in Mysore.
Yes. Give us the Pondicherry date and we quote the drop in writing, at ₹2 per km over the return rate.
For Pondicherry, a return after 10 pm brings the night bata of ₹400 a night.
Yes. Gingee and Tiruvannamalai are on a northern road home; it adds a few hours and km.
Winter, from November to February, brings mild days along the coast. The northeast monsoon drenches this shore from October, and the plains around Villupuram turn sticky and hot in summer. Salem, on the way, collects rain from both monsoons. We time the forest stretch near MM Hills for daylight, which sets an early start.
It is a long day, so we suggest a night in Salem, about halfway, with children under ten. If you go in one day, we halt at Kollegal, Mettur, Salem and Villupuram, so nobody sits for more than two hours at a stretch. Keep snacks, water and a change of clothes in the back seat.
