Kalasa taluk

Kudremukh National Park

Six hundred square kilometres of shola grassland and rainforest — tiger, hornbill, and the source of three rivers.

Kudremukh Peak

The horse-faced peak of the rainforest Ghats

Horanadu Annapoorneshwari Temple

The goddess of food, who feeds every visitor

Kalasa & Kalaseshwara Temple

A Shiva shrine below Kudremukh

Gangamoola (Varaha Parvatha)

One hill, three rivers — the Tunga, the Bhadra and the Netravathi all start here.

Kurinjal Peak

Seven kilometres each way from Bhagavathi camp, through rainforest into grassland.

Netravathi Peak

A long grassland walk above the Netravathi's headwaters, with the coastal plain in view.

Kadambi Falls

A thirty-foot fall through rock inside Kudremukh National Park, right beside the road.

Gangadikal Peak

Rolling shola grassland near the three-river source, with the Kudremukh massif on the horizon.

Hanuman Gundi Falls

A rock-cut plunge inside Kudremukh park

Lakya Dam

The mine's old tailings dam, now a still green sheet of water under the Kudremukh grasslands.

Meruthi Gudda

A half-day grassland climb outside the park core — the trek to do when the permits have gone.

Sarva Siddhi Ganapathi Temple, Samse

A Ganapathi shrine standing in the middle of a tea estate, ten kilometres from Kalasa.

Chandranatha Basadi, Kalasa

A Jain basadi in a Shaiva temple town — the other half of Kalasa's history.