🌲 Chennai to Kolli Hills 70 Hairpin Bends Tour
📍 About Kolli Hills — sightseeing, shopping and what not to miss
Kolli Hills is a quiet hill station in Tamil Nadu, famous for its dramatic approach featuring 70 hairpin bends along the winding ghat road. Visitors come to explore the historic Arapaleeswarar Temple, a prominent spiritual site set amidst lush vegetation. A long stepped descent near the temple takes adventurous travellers down to the impressive Agaya Gangai Falls. The surrounding terrain also conceals the quiet Siddhar caves, long associated with ancient ascetics and meditation. For a more relaxed experience, the local botanical garden offers pleasant walking paths, while several valley viewpoints provide expansive vistas across the forested slopes and surrounding plains. Combining natural sights, ancient heritage, and scenic drives, the region makes a rewarding destination for a short holiday.
🗺️ Places the Chennai to Kolli Hills itinerary covers
Ghat roads are the reason this trip is worth a driver who runs them regularly. Over 2 days you get the same vehicle for the climb, the local sightseeing and the descent.
- 70 hairpin bends on the ghat road
- Agaya Gangai Falls, reached by a long stepped descent
- Arapaleeswarar Temple
- Siddhar caves
- Botanical garden and valley viewpoints
🧭 How a 2-day Chennai to Kolli Hills trip is shaped
- 720 KM of driving in total, Chennai back to Chennai.
- 2 days is the duration most groups book this as.
- Overnight stays are part of the trip, so the driver's halt and batta are factored into the quote.
- The whole route stays inside Tamil Nadu, so there is no interstate permit to arrange.
- Pickup is from your address in Chennai, not from a depot.
💰 What it costs
The Chennai to Kolli Hills trip starts at ₹17,040 for a 9 + 1 Seats Tempo Traveller (Maharaja Sofa), worked out on the full 720 KM over 2 days including driver batta.
All six vehicles, with per-km rates and batta broken out, are on the Chennai to Kolli Hills rental page.
🌙 Driver batta across 2 days
This trip runs 2 days, so batta is charged 2× the daily rate — from ₹1,000 per day depending on the vehicle, already included in every fare above. Over 720 KM the daily driving is paced around the driver's mandatory rest window.
