💎 Hidden Gem🏛️ Historical🛕 Religious📍 Nature

Tambdi Surla Mahadev Temple

Mollem, Goa, India

4.6 (0)

Overview

Goa's oldest building — a perfect 12th-century Kadamba basalt shrine that outlived every invasion by hiding deep in Mollem's jungle.

Why visit: Eight hundred years untouched — a stone secret at the forest's heart.

History: Built c. 1200 by the Kadambas; the only pre-Portuguese temple intact in Goa.

Things to do

›Basalt carvings
›River-side setting
›Surla forest road
›Dudhsagar combo

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Travel Information

Best time

Oct–Mar; Shivaratri

Entry fee

Free

Est. budget

₹300–800

Duration

Half day

Nearby attractions

Within

6.6 km

🦌 National Park

4.4

Bhagwan Mahavir Sanctuary & Mollem

Mollem, Goa

Goa's biggest protected forest — gaur and hornbill country around the Dudhsagar line, Devil's Canyon and the Tambdi Surla trailheads.

Oct–MarFull dayExplore

15.1 km

💧 Waterfall

4.6

Dudhsagar Falls

Goa

The 'Sea of Milk' crashes 310 m down the Western Ghats in four frothing tiers, straddled by a railway viaduct where trains crawl through the spray — reached by jeep safari and a splashy wade through Bhagwan Mahaveer sanctuary's jungle.

Jun–SepFull dayExplore

15.8 km

🐅 Wildlife

4.0

Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary & Zoo

Ponda, Goa

Goa's family jungle — a small forest zoo, botanical gardens, deer safari park and nature-education trails in the Ponda hills.

Oct–Mar (closed Thu)Half dayExplore

16.4 km

💎 Hidden Gem🍲 Local Experience

4.3

Feni Distillery & Cashew Trail

Valpoi, Goa

GI-tagged heritage spirit at its source — cashew-apple stomps, copper-pot lambics in orchard clearings and urrak season's cult following.

Feb–May (distilling season)Half dayExplore

21.1 km

💎 Hidden Gem🛕 Religious

4.1

Brahma Temple, Brahma-Karmali

Valpoi, Goa

One of India's rare Brahma shrines — a superb 12th-century black-stone trimurti-crowned idol carried here from Karmali centuries ago.

Oct–Mar1–2 hrsExplore