Places to visit
Places to visit in and near Honavar
31 beaches, backwaters, waterfalls, temples, forts and hilltops, plus the best day trips. Surrounded by forest, hills and sea, Honavar is a paradise for nature lovers.
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Eco Beach (Kasarkod)
Kasarkod's Eco Beach is a Blue Flag certified beach near Honavar: clean sand, lifeguards, changing rooms and some of the best sunsets on the…
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Tonka Beach
Tonka Beach is a secluded sand spit near Honavar where the Sharavathi River meets the Arabian Sea and an Olive Ridley turtle nesting…
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Sharavathi River Estuary
The Sharavathi River Estuary at Honavar is where the river from Jog Falls meets the Arabian Sea: mangroves, migratory birds, fishing villages and…
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Apsarakonda Waterfalls & Park
Apsarakonda near Honavar has a small, easy-to-reach waterfall with a bathing pool, a hilltop marine park, Pandava caves and an ancient Ugra Narasimha…
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Apsarakonda Beach
Apsarakonda Beach is a quiet, rocky-edged beach at the foot of Apsarakonda hill, a short drive south of…
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Karikanamma Hilltop
Karikanamma Hilltop is the highest viewpoint near Honavar: a forest temple at about 1,500 ft with sweeping views of the Western Ghats and the…
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Chaturmukha Basadi, Gerusoppa
Chaturmukha Basadi at Gerusoppa is a symmetrical four-faced Jain temple hidden in the forest near Honavar, a reminder of the Pepper Queen's…
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Idagunji Mahaganapati Temple
Sri Idagunji Mahaganapati Temple near Honavar is one of coastal Karnataka's most visited Ganesha temples, known for its rare standing two-armed…
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Shri Kshethra Subrahmanya, Mugwa
Shri Kshethra Subrahmanya at Mugwa near Honavar is a traditional temple to Lord Subrahmanya (Kartikeya). It is a different temple from Kukke…
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Samshi Hanging Bridge
Samshi hanging bridge is a long suspension footbridge over the Sharavathi River near Honavar, just off the Honavar–Bengaluru…
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Haigunda Island
Haigunda is a quiet village on an island in the Sharavathi River, about 20 km from Honavar, known for an ancient Yaksha statue from around the…
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Bangara Kusuma Falls
Bangara Kusuma Falls near Gerusoppa is a little-known Western Ghats waterfall reached by an easy forest trek from the Honavar–Bengaluru…
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Sharavathi Valley Viewpoint
The Sharavathi Valley viewpoint on the Honavar–Jog highway looks down on the river winding through forested Western Ghats…
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Jog Falls
Jog Falls, 68 km from Honavar, is where the Sharavathi River plunges 253 m (830 ft) in four streams: Raja, Rani, Roarer and…
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Konkan Railway Tunnel & Sharavathi Rail Bridge
Watch Konkan Railway trains burst out of the tunnels and glide across the 2,065 m Sharavathi River rail bridge at Honavar, the longest bridge on the…
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Sharavathi River Bridge
The Sharavathi River Bridge on NH66 at Honavar offers wide views of the river on both sides, with an old bridge alongside for an evening…
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Basavaraj Durga Island Fort
Basavaraj Durga is a 19-hectare island fort off Honavar, built in 1590 under Vijayanagara rule and later held by the Keladi…
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Pavinakurve Beach
Pavinakurve is a quiet fishing beach north of Honavar, reached across the backwater by a slender suspension…
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Ramanagindi Beach
Ramanagindi Beach at Holegadde, north of Honavar, is a wide, clean and quiet beach in a curve of wooded hills, good for a long walk and…
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Mugali Beach
Mugali Beach near Manki is a secluded cove below a forested hill, reached on foot, with one of the finest sunset views on this…
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Ramatirtha
Ramatirtha is a hillside sacred spring and tank in Honavar, where water flows year-round from a stone spout beside a small…
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Kodlamane Vishnumurthy Temple
Kodlamane Shree Vishnumurthy Temple is an old forest temple in Honavar taluk, reached by a short trek, with a fine Garuda pillar at its…
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Ondadike Shambhulingeshwara Temple
Ondadike Shri Shambhulingeshwara Temple is a small, old Shiva temple deep in the forest below Karikanamma Hilltop, reached by a walk of about a…
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Shri Durgaambika Devi Temple, Haigunda
Shri Durgaambika Devi Temple stands on Haigunda island in the Sharavathi River, an old village shrine to the goddess Durga beside the…
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Shri Bangaramakki Veeranjaneya Temple
Sri Kshetra Bangaramakki near Gerusoppa is a popular Hanuman temple on the bank of the Sharavathi River, 32 km from Honavar on the road to Jog…
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Gerusoppa Dam is a small dam across the Sharavathi River on the way to the Chaturmukha Basadi, set in thick Western Ghats…
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Colonel Hill Pillar
Colonel Hill Pillar is a British-era monument on a hill near Honavar, visible from the NH66…
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Murudeshwar
Murudeshwar, 30 km south of Honavar, is a seaside temple town with a giant 37 m Shiva statue, a towering gopura and scuba trips to Netrani…
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Gokarna
Gokarna, 55 km north of Honavar, combines the ancient Mahabaleshwar temple with a string of cliff-backed beaches: Kudle, Om, Half Moon and…
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Mirjan Fort
Mirjan Fort near Kumta is a moss-covered laterite fort with moats and bastions, linked to the 16th-century Pepper Queen…
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Yana Rocks
Yana, 50 km from Honavar, has two giant black karst rock formations, Bhairaveshwara and Mohini Shikhara, rising out of Western Ghats…
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Beaches in Honavar
From the Blue Flag sands of Eco Beach to the turtle-nesting spit at Tonka, wide Ramanagindi and the hidden cove at…
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The Sharavathi River and its tributaries tumble off the Western Ghats all around Honavar, from easy-to-reach…
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Temples in and around Honavar
Standing Ganesha at Idagunji, the hilltop goddess at Karikanamma, a forest Shiva shrine at Ondadike, Hanuman at…
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Honavar sits at the centre of the Uttara Kannada coast. Jog Falls, Murudeshwar, Gokarna, Mirjan Fort and Yana are all…
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