Lower Kasarkod, Honnavar · Uttara Kannada
Mini buses, cars and bikes on hire. Vintage cars for photoshoots. Sharavathi boating and guided excursions across Uttara Kannada. Carrying people up and down this coast since 1983.
What we run
Charter by the day, the trip or the season. Local runs around Honnavar, temple circuits, wedding parties, school and college excursions, and long-distance outstation routes across Karnataka.
AC and Non-AC coaches for local sightseeing and long-distance charter. Pushback seating, luggage space, a proper sound system, and drivers who know the ghat roads in the dark.
Air-conditioned sedans with a driver, for railway station and airport transfers, day trips down the coast, or a full Uttara Kannada circuit taken at your own pace.
The best way to take the backroads. Pick up in Honnavar, ride out to the beach and the boardwalk, or follow the coast all the way to Murudeshwara and back.
Travel is the healthiest addiction.
Painted on the side of every bus we own
The same names on every bus
Juvanv Lilly is a grandfather and a grandmother, and their names go across the front of every bus we own. St. Sebastian and St. Antony ride with them. The livery is painted by hand at Trasi, so no two buses come out quite the same, but the names never change.
From our gate
Honnavar sits on NH-66 with the Western Ghats behind it and the Arabian Sea in front. Almost everything worth seeing in Uttara Kannada is inside an hour. Here is what is where, measured by road from Lower Kasarkod.
Road distances are approximate and measured from Honnavar. Tell us where you want to go and we will build the route.
Honnavar Vintage Cars & Bikes
Five vehicles, kept for one purpose: to look extraordinary in a photograph. Bring your photographer to the beach, the backwaters, an open field or a coconut grove, and we will have the car there, polished and positioned, before the light turns.
The vintage fleet
Roof off, six seats, and everyone visible. The one to book for a wedding entry or a procession down the highway.
Long, low and unmistakable. Our most requested car for pre-wedding shoots, and it holds a silhouette beautifully against a sunset.
Chrome grille, white roof, and a colour that reads instantly in a photograph. Works as well in a coconut grove as on the sand.
Small, red and full of character. Best on the old village lanes, parked against a tiled Malenadu house.
Deep maroon tank and chrome pipes. A single-rider machine that suits solo portraits and groom shots.
Book a vintage car for the couple and a mini bus for the party, arranged as one booking on one call.
Out on the water and up the coast
Not a booking desk. Our own vehicles, our own boats, and guides who grew up on this stretch of coast and can tell you which tide to go out on.
Out through the estuary where the Sharavathi meets the sea, past mangrove islands and fishing stakes. Best an hour before sunset.
A wooden walkway running out through dense mangrove along the Sharavathi estuary. Kingfishers, crabs, and shade the whole way.
Blue Flag certified, backed by casuarina groves and an old lighthouse. Clean sand, changing rooms, and far fewer people than Gokarna.
Murudeshwara, Idagunji, Gokarna, Mirjan Fort, Yana and Jog Falls — routed as a day trip or a proper multi-day circuit with a guide along.
From our cameras
Everything here was shot on our own trips and shoots. More goes up on Instagram most weeks.
How booking works
Call or WhatsApp with your dates, how many people and where you want to go. Rough is fine — we will fill in the route.
A clear price for the vehicle, the driver and the days involved, with tolls and permits accounted for. No surprises later.
Pay an advance to hold the date. We pick you up from your hotel, the railway station or wherever suits.
Get in touch
Trapti Travels
Lower Kasarkod, Honnavar
Uttara Kannada, Karnataka 581342
