Coorg - Kodagu - is South India's coffee country: a misty highland of plantations, spice gardens, waterfalls and warrior culture, scented with cardamom and fresh-roasted beans. A few hours east lies Mysuru, the cultured former capital of the Wodeyar kings, with its fairy-tale palace, sandalwood and silk.
We pair the green calm of an estate stay - coffee walks, an elephant camp, a Tibetan golden temple - with the royal grandeur of Mysuru, ending if your timing allows with the palace lit by a hundred thousand bulbs.
It is a gentle, soulful counterpoint to the temples and beaches of the south.
This is the gentle green of southern Karnataka. Coorg (Kodagu) is hill country of coffee and spice plantations, misty ridges and the source of the Kaveri, where you stay on an estate and walk among the coffee. Mysuru adds its dazzling Indo-Saracenic palace, the Devaraja market and the hill temple of Chamundi - a gracious, unhurried corner of the south.
Bengaluru→Coorg→Mysuru