Mandya District
The sugar-bowl district on the Cauvery, near the Krishna Raja Sagara dam.
Brindavan Gardens & KRS Dam
Mandya
A terraced, musical-fountain garden laid out beside the Krishna Raja Sagara Dam across the Kaveri — one of early twentieth-century India's landmark irrigation projects, engineered under Diwan M. Visvesvaraya.
Stamp at: KRS Dam Post Office
Gaganachukki & Barachukki Twin Falls
Mandya
Twin waterfalls where the Kaveri splits around Shivanasamudra island — site of Asia's first major hydroelectric power station (1902), which lit Kolar Gold Fields and Bengaluru decades before most of India had electricity.
Stamp at: Shivanasamudra Post Office
Melukote Cheluvanarayana Swamy Temple
Mandya
A hilltop Vaishnavite temple town forever linked to the philosopher Ramanujacharya, who took refuge here in the twelfth century — its annual Vairamudi festival displays jewellery gifted by Mysore's Wodeyar kings and, by tradition, by Tipu Sultan.
Stamp at: Melukote Post Office
Ranganathaswamy Temple
Mandya
The riverine Vaishnavite temple that gives Srirangapatna its name — the first and northernmost of the three sacred Ranganatha shrines strung along the Kaveri, predating the fortress-capital that grew up around it.
Stamp at: Srirangapatna Post Office
Srirangapatna Daria Daulat Bagh
Mandya
Tipu Sultan's teakwood summer palace on the island-town of Srirangapatna, its walls covered in painted murals of court life and the Battle of Pollilur — one of the best-preserved Indo-Islamic palace interiors in South India.
Stamp at: Srirangapatna Post Office