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Melukote -  Fort of the Gods

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An offbeat and cultural tour that shows you a hill town, its vast temples and special dishes, a huge lake and sugar fields downhill
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 beautifulHill town. Ancient Temples. Picturesque views. Rice based delicacies. Ruins. Sanskrit University. Rural landscape.

Melukote or Melkote literally means upper fort. However there’s nothing military about this today. It’s known as a temple town for its small community of ‘Iyengars’, two beautiful temples, a sanskrit university and picturesque ruins.

That’s putting it in concise words. A tour is a different experience in itself. On the way to Mysore, the road detours off into a small street through sugarcane fields. Going uphill enjoy lovely countryside views of Mandya.

On the top, the town emerges as a mix of old & new architectures. Small homes, narrow lanes, awesome sweet & spicy rice dishes – the ‘Sakkare Pongal & Puliogare’ – in simple small hotels, vast temple with enchanting stories weaved around it, the quaint sanskrit college that painstakingly digitises archaic palm leaf philosophical texts & a quaint nicely preserved home of a well-known writer.

While the town appears warped in time, coming downhill, one realizes that the time has just flown by. A surreal experience.

Duration: 8-10 hours
Attractions: Melkote temples, Sanskrit university, Sugarcane farms , traditional Iyengar rice dishes (Puliogare) 
Inclusions: Guided tour, traditional short eats and lunch
Exclusions: Transport & everything not given above 
Toilet: Public toilet (Indian) beyond the temple or near the bus stop

Parking: Behind the temple
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  • Home
  • City Walks
    • Market Trails >
      • Russell Market Walk
      • City Market Walk
    • Heritage Walks >
      • Exploring Basavanagudi
      • Malleswaram Walk
      • Pete Walk
      • Life in the Pete
      • City Market Walk
      • Towns of Bangalore
      • Cubbon Park Walk
    • Food Trails
    • Nature trails >
      • Cubbon Park Walk
      • Lalbagh Walk
  • City Tours
    • Bengaluru In A Day
    • Medieval Bengaluru Trail
    • South Indian Cultural Trail
    • Kempegowda Trail
  • BEYOND BENGALURU
    • A Day At Nandi
    • Trek up the Devarayanadurga
    • Melukote
    • Hampi and Anegundi
    • Srirangapatna and Hosaholalu
    • Talakadu
    • Nandi and Lepakshi
    • Srirangapatna & Mysore
    • Belur & Halebidu
    • The Silk Route Trail
  • EDUCATIONAL TOURS
  • Team
  • In the news
  • From our travellers
  • Blog
  • Contact us
  • T&C