Official KSTDC tours — hill stations, heritage circuits, wildlife sanctuaries, Kerala backwaters and pilgrimages. Same price as KSTDC, zero booking fee, booked through Padaki Travel Desk.
The Nilgiri hills and Kerala's green highlands in one sweep — Doddabetta Peak, tea estates, Sim's Park Coonoor, Edakal Caves and Banasura Sagar Dam.
Royal heritage and Nilgiri heights — Tipu Sultan's summer palace, KRS Brindavan Gardens, Nanjangud, Ooty Botanical Garden, Doddabetta Peak (2,637m) and Mysore Zoo.
Departs from Mysore — Nanjangud temple, scenic Bandipur forest drive, Ooty Lake, Botanical Garden (est. 1848) and Doddabetta Peak, Tamil Nadu's highest point at 2,637m.
Two great hill stations — Kodaikanal's Pillar Rocks, star-shaped lake, Silver Cascade Falls, then Munnar's rolling tea estates, Eravikulam National Park (Nilgiri Tahr) and Madupatty Dam.
Himavad Gopalaswamy Hills inside Bandipur Reserve, Pookode Lake, Kanthanpara Falls, India's largest earth dam at Banasura Sagar, Glass Bridge and prehistoric Edakal Caves.
Goa's beaches and churches, Gokarna's sacred Om Beach, and Jog Falls — India's second-highest waterfall. A coastal and natural circuit in a single tour.
Yagachi Dam boating, Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary (UNESCO), Bababudangiri sacred hilltop, Manikyadhara Falls, and Mullayanagiri (1,930m) — Karnataka's highest peak.
Pilgrimage and wildlife in one — Male Mahadeshwara temple in the Satyamangalam forest, then the Biligiri Rangana Tiger Reserve — one of the few places where the Western and Eastern Ghats meet.
Kerala's finest — Periyar boat safari, Kumily spice gardens, a night aboard an Alleppey houseboat on the Vembanad Lake backwaters, and Munnar's tea estates with the endangered Nilgiri Tahr.
Coorg in 2 days — Namdroling Golden Temple at Bylakuppe, Cauvery Nisargadhama river island, Raja's Seat sunset, Talacauvery (source of Cauvery), Abbey Falls and Dubare Elephant Camp.
Two UNESCO World Heritage sites in one tour — Hampi's Vijayanagara ruins and Pattadakal's Chalukya temples — plus Badami Cave Temples, Aihole (cradle of Indian architecture) and Bijapur's Gol Gumbaz.
Three of Karnataka's greatest medieval masterpieces in one day — Lord Bahubali's 18m monolithic statue (981 AD), Chennakeshava Temple Belur (1117 AD), and the UNESCO Hoysaleshwara Temple at Halebid (inscribed 2023).
Pilgrimage and heritage in 4 days — Sri Raghavendra Swamy Brindavana at Mantralaya, full-day Hampi UNESCO circuit with the iconic Stone Chariot, and Tungabhadra Dam Musical Fountain.
Chitradurga's legendary stone fort, Tungabhadra Dam and Musical Fountain, 11th-century Lakkundi Chalukya temples, Gadag, and Anjanadri Hills — believed birthplace of Lord Hanuman.
Karnataka's most revered Kshetras in one circuit — Dharmasthala, Kukke Subrahmanya, Kollur Mookambika, Udupi Sri Krishna Temple and the coastal temple towns of the Tulu Nadu.
The sacred Konkan coast — Gokarna's Mahabaleshwara Temple, Murudeshwara's massive Shiva statue above the Arabian Sea, Udupi Sri Krishna, Kollur Mookambika and Mangalore temples.
Sarva Darshan at Sri Venkateswara Temple Tirupathi — one of the world's most visited pilgrimage sites — and Sri Kalahasteeswara Temple, one of the five Pancha Bhuta Stalas of Shaivism.
Forest pilgrimage — Male Mahadeshwara Swamy Temple inside the Satyamangalam Forest Reserve, then Biligiri Rangana Tiger Reserve — the unique meeting point of the Western and Eastern Ghats.
Tamil Nadu's sacred triangle — Meenakshi Temple Madurai, Rameswaram Thirtha Snana and Spatika Linga darshan, Suchindram's Trinity shrine, and Kanyakumari's sunrise with Vivekananda Rock.
The French Riviera of India — Pondicherry's Promenade Beach, the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Auroville's Matrimandir, the French Quarter with its colourful colonial architecture and Tamil temples.