--- title: "Shirali – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Shirali, India: Shirali is a village in Bhatkal taluk of Uttara Kannada district in Karnataka. Nearby: Chitrapur Math, Maha Ganapathi Mahammaya Temple.…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/shirali" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/shirali.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/ShiraliBeach.jpg" --- Village in Karnataka, India # Shirali Shirali is a village in Bhatkal taluk of Uttara Kannada district in Karnataka. ![Shirali](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/ShiraliBeach.jpg) Shirali · Wikimedia Commons The place Shirali is a village in Bhatkal taluk of Uttara Kannada district in Karnataka. Shirali is home to two prominent temples: the Chitrapur Math and the Maha Ganapathi Mahammaya Temple. The Chitrapur Math is the holiest temple of the Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin community, and the Maha Ganapathi Mahammaya temple is the Kuladev to the Kamaths, Bhats, Puraniks, Prabhus, Joishys, Mallyas, Kudvas and Nayak families from the Goud Saraswat Brahmin community. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirali), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Shirali 2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. Chitrapur Math Shri Chitrapur Math is the central math for the Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin sect. It has been located at Shirali in the Bhatkal Taluk in the North Kanara district of Karnataka since 1757. 2.5 km · central community temple for the Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin sect in Karnataka, India · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitrapur_Math) 2. Maha Ganapathi Mahammaya Temple The Maha Ganapathi Mahammaya Temple is a Hindu temple in Shirali in the Uttar Kannada district of Karnataka state. The temple is dedicated to the god Ganesha as Mahaganapati and the goddess Mahamaya. 1.9 km · Hindu temple · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maha_Ganapathi_Mahammaya_Temple) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Shirali **Airports:** Mangaluru (IXE), 125 km · Goa Dabolim (GOI), 168 km · Manohar (GOX), 205 km\ **Stations:** Chitrapur railway station, 3 km\ - Mangaluru → Shirali Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/mangaluru-to-shirali) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Mangaluru&to=Shirali) - Vasco da Gama → Shirali Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/vasco-da-gama-to-shirali) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Vasco+da+Gama&to=Shirali) - Mopa → Shirali Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/mopa-to-shirali) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Mopa&to=Shirali) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Shirali) Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Shirali Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Shirali. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in From Mumbai, a private Volvo bus is available for Mangalore which stops at Murdeshwar bypass road opposite to the main gate of the temple and adjacent to the gate is a rickshaw stand which will charge ₹30 (April 2017) for a ride till Main temple. From [Wikivoyage: Murdeshwar](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Murdeshwar), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Gokarna](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gokarna) IN 7 ways of moving, 14 sources 63 km 2. [Hampi](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hampi) IN 8 ways of moving, 18 sources 255 km 3. [Agatti](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/agatti) IN 8 ways of moving, 19 sources 432 km 4. [Nelliyampathy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/nelliyampathy) IN 7 ways of moving, 26 sources 454 km 5. [Kanthalloor](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kanthalloor) IN 6 ways of moving, 13 sources 512 km If you know how people move in Shirali – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cshirali&title=Shirali&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fshirali), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Shirali - [Venkatapura](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/venkatapura) human settlement in Uttara Kannada District, Belgaum division, Karnataka, India 1.5 km - [Chitrapur](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chitrapur) human settlement in India 2.6 km [The place page for Shirali](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/shirali) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on India](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-IN) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/shirali, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt