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Bangalore Day Trip: Stone Giant & UNESCO Hoysala Temples 20% OFF
Bangalore, India
$214.85
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Overview
The Karnataka Temples Tour offers an intimate exploration of some of India's most significant cultural sites. With expert native guides, this journey reveals the hidden stories behind ancient temples, ensuring a unique experience unlike any other.
- 🏛️ Visit Shravanabelagola, a site of living faith with 700 ancient steps leading to the iconic Gomateshwara statue, standing 57 feet tall and carved from a single granite rock.
- 🍽️ Savor a traditional South Indian breakfast featuring freshly steamed idlis, crisp dosas, and aromatic filter coffee, welcoming you to the region.
- 🕌 Explore the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Hoysaleshwara Temple at Halebidu, where every inch of the 200-meter outer wall showcases intricate carvings of gods, celestial dancers, and mythical creatures.
- 🌄 Experience the Chennakeshava Temple at Belur, constructed over 103 years, renowned for its exquisite soapstone carvings that display unparalleled craftsmanship.
- 🚐 Enjoy comfortable air-conditioned transport throughout the day, providing a relaxing journey through the beautiful Karnataka countryside.
- 👨🏫 Benefit from the insights of your expert native guide, who shares stories and details that no guidebook can offer, enhancing your understanding of the sites.
- 📍 Door-to-door pick-up and drop-off from your Bangalore hotel ensures a hassle-free experience, allowing you to focus on enjoying your day.
- 🍴 Lunch is included, featuring authentic local cuisine that is both satisfying and deeply connected to the region's culinary traditions.
- 🌟 Maximum of 8 travelers per group creates an intimate atmosphere, ensuring personalized attention from your guide and a more meaningful experience.
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The experience offers several options. This price includes:
ONLY UNESCO BELUR + HALEBIDU
This is a bare-bones version. South Indian Vegetarian lunch included.
Only Belur & Halebeedu Temples: This is a bare-bones version. South Indian Vegetarian lunch included.
Pickup included
This is a bare-bones version. South Indian Vegetarian lunch included.
Only Belur & Halebeedu Temples: This is a bare-bones version. South Indian Vegetarian lunch included.
Pickup included
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
The experience offers several options, check yours above
- Traditional South Indian lunch — authentic, local, and deeply satisfying
- Comfortable air-conditioned vehicle throughout — sit back and enjoy the countryside
- Expert native guide throughout the monuments — stories, insights, and details no guidebook contains
- All monument entry fees and admission tickets included — no surprises
- Door-to-door pick-up and drop-off from your Bangalore hotel
- Traditional South Indian breakfast — idlis, dosas, and aromatic filter coffee to start the day right
- Entirely at your discretion, always appreciated
- Personal Shopping
- Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)
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KunigalYour day begins before the monuments do. We pick you up from your hotel in a comfortable air-conditioned vehicle and set off through the Karnataka countryside. As Bangalore's skyline fades behind you, the landscape opens up — rice fields, temple towns, and the quiet rhythm of rural Karnataka rolling past your window. First stop: a traditional South Indian breakfast. Freshly steamed idlis, crisp dosas, aromatic filter coffee. Not an afterthought — a warm welcome to the region you're about to explore.
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ShravanabelagolaShravanabelagola — 2,300 Years of Living Faith Your expert guide meets you here, at the foot of 700 ancient steps and 2,300 years of living faith. Those steps are climbed barefoot, as Jain tradition demands. Well-worn and smooth, with handrails throughout — guests in their 60s and 70s reach the top comfortably. Your guide walks every step with you, sharing the story of Bahubali — the Jain prince who renounced his kingdom, stood motionless in meditation, and was immortalised in stone for eternity. And then — Gomateshwara. Fifty-seven feet of a single granite rock, carved over a thousand years ago. One of the most extraordinary things you will ever stand before.
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Hoysaleswara TempleHalebidu — Where Every Inch Tells a Story The UNESCO World Heritage Hoysaleshwara Temple at Halebidu stretches over 200 metres of outer wall — every inch carved with gods, goddesses, elephants, celestial dancers, scenes from the Ramayana and Mahabharata, floral scrolls, and mythical creatures. No two panels are the same. No detail is too small to astonish. Your guide doesn't just point — they decode. By the time you leave, the stone is no longer stone. It's a conversation. Lunch is served here — authentic, local, and deeply satisfying.
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Belur — The Temple That Took 103 Years to Build Commissioned in 1116 AD by Hoysala King Vishnuvardhana, the Chennakeshava Temple at Belur took three generations and over a century to complete. It shows. The soapstone carvings — celestial dancers, divine beings, delicate floral motifs — were executed with a precision that defies belief. The jewellery on some dancer sculptures is carved so finely it can actually be moved. This is the finest temple architecture in India. With your guide, you'll experience it as it deserves — slowly, deeply, and with full understanding.
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BengaluruThe Journey Home The drive back to Bangalore is your time to exhale — to let the day settle. Your driver is there for any needs along the way, and you'll be back in the city by evening, carrying something most visitors to Bangalore never find. With no more than 8 travellers, every moment of this day is yours.
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Bangalore Day Trip: Stone Giant & UNESCO Hoysala Temples 20% OFF
Bangalore, India
$214.85
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
01
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
02
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We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
03
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Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!