Easy · 2 days · ₹6,100 per person · from Bengaluru

The 'Cherrapunji of the South' — true tropical rainforest, waterfalls and a night walk in king-cobra country.

Waypoints: Bengaluru → Agumbe / Hebri → Sunset View Point → Onake Abbi Falls → Barkana viewpoint → Agumbe

Hidden gem: Onake Abbi Falls (~120 m) — A 'pestle' of water falling off the Agumbe plateau into rainforest, reached only by a 5 km forest path.

Skills you'll learn: Leech, tick and snake protocols, wet-ground movement, waterfall safety and reading the rainforest — Level 1.

Moderate · 2 days · ₹6,900 per person · from Bengaluru

A hill-fort start, rolling grassland, and a stream that hurls itself off the escarpment into deep forest.

Waypoints: Bengaluru → Durgadahalli → Ballalarayana Durga fort → Grassland traverse → Bandaje Falls

Hidden gem: Bandaje Arbi (~200 m) from the top — The Netravati-basin waterfall seen from its own lip after a grassland traverse from Ballalarayana Durga.

Skills you'll learn: Leech, tick and snake protocols, wet-ground movement, waterfall safety and reading the rainforest — Level 1.

Difficult · 2 days · ₹6,800 per person · from Bengaluru

'KP' — widely rated the toughest trek in Karnataka, and one of its most rewarding.

Waypoints: Bengaluru → Beedahalli estate → Mallalli Falls → Bhattara Mane → Kallu Mantapa → Shesha Parvatha → Kumara Parvatha peak → Descent to Kukke

Hidden gem: Mallalli Falls — lower tier — The Kumaradhara drops 60 m in tiers below Pushpagiri; visitors see the top from a railing, we walk the anglers' path to the lower pool.

Skills you'll learn: Leech, tick and snake protocols, wet-ground movement, waterfall safety and reading the rainforest — Level 1.

Moderate–Difficult · 3 days · ₹8,900 per person · from Bengaluru

A sacred rainforest peak reached by scrambling up alongside a spectacular tiered waterfall.

Waypoints: Bengaluru → Nittur village → Kattinahole → Hidlumane Falls → Kodachadri ridge → Kodachadri peak & Sarvajna Peetha → Arasinagundi Falls

Hidden gem: Arasinagundi Falls (~50 m) — A fall hidden in Mookambika Wildlife Sanctuary forest 2 km off the Nittur–Kollur road, reached by a short forest path the jeep-borne pilgrims never take.

Skills you'll learn: Leech, tick and snake protocols, wet-ground movement, waterfall safety and reading the rainforest — Level 1.

Moderate · 3 days · ₹8,800 per person · from Bengaluru

India's 'horse-face' peak — endless rolling shola-grassland and one of the Ghats' great summit walks — plus the park's quiet second summit, Kurinjal.

Waypoints: Bengaluru → Mullodi / Samse → Lobo's house → Ontimara / river crossings → Kudremukh Peak → Mullodi → Bhagavathi forest camp → Kurinjal Peak → Bhagavathi

Hidden gem: Kurinjal Peak (1,500 m) — Kudremukh's second summit, 8 km from the Bhagavathi forest camp through pristine shola and grassland.

Skills you'll learn: Leech, tick and snake protocols, wet-ground movement, waterfall safety and reading the rainforest — Level 1.

Moderate · 3 days · ₹10,200 per person · from Bengaluru

Coorg's highest peak, paired with coffee-estate homestays and the source of the Kaveri.

Waypoints: Bengaluru → Kakkabe → Nalknad Palace → Shola–grassland shoulder → Tadiandamol peak → Kabbe Hills ridge

Hidden gem: Kabbe Hills ridge — A grass ridge above Chelavara, west of Tadiandamol, with the same Kodagu-to-Kerala views and none of the summit's weekend crowd.

Skills you'll learn: Leech, tick and snake protocols, wet-ground movement, waterfall safety and reading the rainforest — Level 1.

Difficult · 7 days · ₹34,000 per person · from Bengaluru

Seven days of jungle survival in the Kudremukh–Agumbe buffer — tropical-forest self-reliance, taught by veterans from Special Forces.

Waypoints: Bengaluru → Kigga village → Skills camp → 24-hour pair survival exercise → Narasimha Parvatha summit

Hidden gem: Narasimha Parvatha (1,152 m) at dawn — The highest point of the Agumbe plateau, climbed from Kigga through the Sringeri reserve forest.

Skills you'll learn: The full jungle-survival track: shelter, water from non-stream sources, fire without matches, signalling and a 24-hour pair exercise — Level 3.

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