Travel guides
Honnavar travel guides
Written by the family that runs the homestay and the boats. Real distances, real prices, and the plans we give our own guests.
- Best Homestays in Honnavar: An Honest Guide by Type of TravellerThere is no single best homestay in Honnavar. There is a best one for your trip. We run one of the six below, so we have tried hard to be fair about all of them.
- Honnavar in 2 Days: An Itinerary from a Local FamilyTwo nights is the right length for Honnavar. This is the plan we give our own guests, with real distances, prices and timings.
- How to Reach Honnavar by Train, Bus, Road and AirHonnavar is on the coastal highway and the Konkan Railway, which makes it one of the easier small towns on the Karnataka coast to get to.
- Where to Stay in Honnavar: Areas, Types of Stay and What to CheckHonnavar is small, but where you sleep still changes the trip: the riverside for boating at the door, the beach side for the sand, or a quiet plantation stay inland. Here is an honest guide to the areas, what each one suits, and what to check before you book.
- Bengaluru to Honnavar: A Weekend Trip Without Taking LeaveLeave Bengaluru on Friday night, wake up by the Sharavathi on Saturday and be back at your desk on Monday morning.
- Honnavar in the Monsoon: What Is Open and What to ExpectFrom June to September the coast turns deep green and the waterfalls roar. It is a very different trip from a winter one, and for some people a better one.
- Honnavar Homestay with Backwater BoatingDe antique Pauli's is a Honnavar homestay with boating built in: one family runs the house and the boats, so the room and the ride are booked together instead of arranged with two different people. Sleep a hundred metres from the jetty and take the first ride of the morning or the last one of the evening.
- A Quiet Homestay near Murudeshwar, in HonnavarMurudeshwar is forty minutes down a four-lane highway. Visit the temple in the morning and spend the rest of your trip somewhere quieter.
- A Homestay near Gokarna: Honnavar as Your BaseHonnavar is not Gokarna, and that is the point. Here is an honest look at when it makes the better base, and when it does not.
- Homestay near Honnavar Railway Station and Bus StandMost of our guests arrive on the overnight train or bus from Bengaluru. Here is exactly how the first and last hours of your trip work.
- Family and Group Stay in HonnavarA family room for four to six, the whole house for bigger groups, food cooked for everyone and boats large enough to keep the group together.
- Places to visit in HonnavarNine places from the backwaters next door to Jog Falls, with distances from the homestay.
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