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Madkai

Marcaim or Madkai is a census town in Ponda taluka, North Goa district in the state of Goa, India.

Madkai
Madkai · Ramnath Bhat
The place

Marcaim or Madkai is a census town in Ponda taluka, North Goa district in the state of Goa, India. It was historically known as Madiyagombu as recent as the 14th century.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Madkai

7 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. 01
    Safa Masjid

    The Safa Mosque, also known as the Safa Shahouri Mosque, is a mosque located at Ponda within Goa, India. The mosque has a complex consisting of garden and fountains.

    5.6 km · mosque in Goa · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Indian Institute of Technology Goa

    Indian Institute of Technology Goa is an autonomous public university located in Goa and an institute of National Importance. Ever since an IIT was allotted to Goa by the Central government in 2014, the new Indian Institute of Technology at Goa started functioning from July, 2016 in a temporary campus housed at Goa Engineering College.

    3 km · autonomous premier engineering and technology university located in Goa · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Ponda Fort

    The Ponda Fort is located near Ponda, in the state of Goa on the west coast of India. The present structure is a modern reconstruction on this location and converted into a park.

    4.2 km · restored ancient fort · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    New Zuari Bridge

    New Zuari Bridge, also commonly known as Manohar Setu, is a bridge over the Zuari River in Goa, India, linking the districts of North Goa and South Goa. Opened in 2022, with a total length of 640 metres, New Zuari Bridge is the second longest cable-stayed bridge in India.

    5 km · cable-stayed bridge in Goa · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Mahalasa Narayani Temple

    Mahalasa Narayani Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to the goddess Mohini as Mahalasa, located in Mardol, Ponda, in the Indian state of Goa.

    3 km · Hindu Temple in Mardol, Goa · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Ramnathi

    The Ramnathi Temple is located in Ramnathim, Bandivade in Goa. The primary worshippers come from the social classes Goud Saraswat Brahmins belonging to Gokarn Math, & Kashi Mutt, Daivadnya Brahmin and Vaishyas.

    4.2 km · Hindu temple in Goa · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Goa Engineering College

    Goa Engineering College or Goa College of Engineering is a public college in Goa, India, offering courses in engineering disciplines and affiliated to Goa University. Founded in 1967 and situated at Farmagudi plateau, Ponda, it is the oldest engineering college in Goa, with over 2,200 students.

    3.1 km · government engineering college in Goa · Wikipedia

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.

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Getting to Madkai

Airports
Goa Dabolim (GOI), 14 km · Manohar (GOX), 37 km · Mangaluru (IXE), 292 km
  • Mangaluru → Madkai
    295 km · quickest by road, 6h 43m · ₹2,290–2,870
  • Pune → Madkai
    345 km · quickest by air, 4h 17m · ₹5,340–8,210
  • Navi Mumbai → Madkai
    415 km · quickest by air, 4h 52m · ₹5,970–9,150
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Madkai

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 Madkai. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere are seasonal charter flights from Europe.

From Wikivoyage: Vasco da Gama, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    GokarnaIN

    7 ways of moving, 14 sources

    105 km
  2. 02
    HampiIN

    8 ways of moving, 18 sources

    269 km
  3. 03
    AgattiIN

    8 ways of moving, 19 sources

    541 km
  4. 04
    NelliyampathyIN

    7 ways of moving, 26 sources

    619 km
  5. 05
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    677 km

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