The pristine beauty of the Malpe Beach is complemented by peaceful surroundings; which makes it a favorite holiday spot. Malpe beach is 392 km from Bangalore and 66 km north of Mangalore.

Malpe tours with its sheltered harbor makes a quiet beach retreat, just six kilometers away from Udupi.Right across is St.Mary's Isles, more serene, and ideal for picnics can be reached by boat from here.

This beach is quite different. It's a long, broad, town beach, undeveloped but likely to grow when a large beach-hotel, under construction, is completed. It has the best restaurants available in the famed area. A short drive from an Udupi restaurant in the town brings us to the fishing harbor where one can board a tourist ferry. Chugging across a bay, towing a speedboat behind us. Heading for the uninhabited St. Mary's Island, when the ferry anchors offshore, one can climb into the speedboat, beached on the island, and can hop ashore. Its unique rocks are black and thrust up out of the golden sand like stacked Turkish cigarettes as defiantly dramatic as they are ancient. This is neither swimming nor a strolling beach. It's a beach to be gazed and wondered at; and it's the only one of its kind in India.