🏔️ Mountain🛕 Religious🥾 Trekking

Baba Budangiri & Manikyadhara Falls

Chikmagalur, Karnataka, India

4.4 (0)

Overview

The shrine-cave of Sufi saint Baba Budan — who smuggled seven coffee beans from Yemen — on a ridge of laterite cliffs, gales and the misty Manikyadhara cascade.

Why visit: Where Indian coffee was born, on a dargah-and-cave ridge shared by faiths.

History: Baba Budan's 17th-century beans began India's entire coffee story on these slopes.

Things to do

›Dattatreya Peetha cave
›Manikyadhara falls
›Gaalikere lake
›Ridge drive from Mullayanagiri

TrekkingPilgrimagePhotography

Location & MapDirections

Reviews (0)

No reviews yet. Be the first to review!

Travel Information

Best time

Sep–Feb

Entry fee

Free

Est. budget

₹300–700

Duration

Half day

Nearby attractions

Within

4.5 km

🏔️ Mountain

4.6

Mullayanagiri Peak

Chikmagalur, Karnataka

Karnataka's rooftop — 1,930 m of wind-scoured ridge above the coffee bowl, with a tiny Shiva shrine on the summit and cloud rivers below.

Sep–FebHalf dayExplore

11.6 km

💧 Waterfall

4.4

Hebbe Falls

Kemmangundi, Karnataka

A 168-m two-stage plunge (Dodda and Chikka Hebbe) deep in Bhadra's estate forests, reached by a wild shared-jeep track and stream wades.

Oct–FebHalf dayExplore

12.7 km

🍲 Local Experience

4.5

Chikmagalur Coffee Estates

Chikmagalur, Karnataka

India's coffee capital — plantation homestays under silver oaks, estate walks through arabica rows, roastery tastings and pepper-vine shade.

Sep–Mar; blossom showers (Mar–Apr)2–3 daysExplore

14.6 km

⛰️ Hill Station

4.3

Kemmangundi (K.R. Hills)

Tarikere, Karnataka

Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV's red-soil summer retreat at 1,434 m — rose gardens, the Z Point cliff walk and sunset over rank upon rank of Bhadra hills.

Sep–Feb1–2 daysExplore