🏖️ Beach📍 Nature🪂 Adventure

Malpe Beach & St Mary's Islands

Udupi, Karnataka, India

4.5 (0)

Overview

A lively fishing-harbour beach with ferries to St Mary's Islands — surreal hexagonal basalt columns from Madagascar's rifting, 88 million years old.

Why visit: India's strangest geology: crystalline lava pillars rising from a coconut-strewn shore.

Things to do

›Hexagonal basalt columns
›Malpe harbour
›Sea walk promenade
›Sunset ferry

Island FerryBeach WalkWater Sports

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Travel Information

Best time

Oct–May

Entry fee

Ferry ₹300–400

Est. budget

₹500–1,200

Duration

Half–full day

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Within

4.8 km

🍲 Local Experience

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A 1901 lighthouse on black rocks splitting a long white beach — Kollywood's favourite coastal frame, at its best when the lamp starts to sweep at dusk.

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