Malpe beach is one of the good beaches in coastal karnataka.It is 5 k.m. from udupi town.Udupi town is famous for Sri Krishna temple.The udupi district is 425 km from Bangalore.
If you are planning to cover mangalore udupi kolluru Dharmastals etc then better take your own vehicle so that you use your time in better way than planning other mode of travel.Malpe has fisheries port so you can vist the port too but for beach you need to travel 2 km north from malpe where you can see clean beach.
Sundays lot of local people will visit this beach. The other place you can visit is Saint maries island.For that you have to keep one day.there are private boats availble .Udupi has lot of good hotels like kediyoor karavali Sharada etc. You get fresh fish foods here in udupi hotels.If you like Mangalore preparation like kori roti fish fry then you can try all this udupi hotels.