Gateway of India Mumbai (Bombay)

Ben: Well, today we were feeling slightly better, although a little bit unwell, we wanted to make the most of the last full day of our trip so we endeavoured to see the Elephanta Caves. We started off by catching a cab to a veg falafel place that we saw yesterday and that looked great, and the food was pretty good. After filling our bellies we …

No se que es más importante mencionar si lo caótico, sucio, caluroso de Mumbai o la pérdida de mi pasaporte en un lugar caótico, sucio y caluroso. Después de medio descansar en una cama de piedra y con un desayuno de huevos estrellados bañados en aceite, me disponía a iniciar mi tour pero al darme cuenta que mi pasaporte no estaba entré en pánico …

Flight back from Kochi to Mumbai, where we stayed for one night in Residency Hotel Andheri near the airport. We were very lucky that the man at the front desk liked us and gave us an upgrade to a brand new "Club Room" with a huge bathroom that was separated only by a long glass wall from the room - 100% guaranteed eye contact :-))

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As predicted I woke up feeling a little bit jaded. The lack of available water issue needed to be addressed very quickly, but I decided to get myself sorted and the backpack repacked before allowing myself to sit and attempt to recover. The alka seltzers were located as a matter of priority and after breakfast I started to perk up. Everyone had …

Hi all I wasn't going to write a last Blog from India as I had written in my last one about the different places I'd been during my time here, however now I am about to leave I have decided India deserves a proper good bye!

So after 4 months, 6 states, 1000’s of miles, numerous plane, bus, train, taxi, rickshaw, boat and camel …

Spend two days here after THE best train journey I have ever taken - the Rajdhani Express train from Delhi. It costs the same as a flight, but you are treated to an array of food and are pampered all the way.

In Mumbai I took in some of the sights including the Gateway of India and The Elephanta Caves. the latter being the most …

We were glad to be back in Mumbai or Bombay as the locals still call it. I've wanted to come here ever since I read Shantaram, and seeing as we had a bad experience when we first arrived here a few weeks ago, we wanted to try it again.

This time we had no probs, pretty much. For starters we treated ourselves to a much nicer (and more …

Cosmopolitan, sophisticated, liberal and clean, Mumbai ticked many boxes we hadn't seen for a while. After a few frantic weeks travelling the north of India, we were pleased to find ourselves in a relatively calm place, and enjoyed a few days languishing in the slower rhythm of this beautiful city. After an epic 22 hour train journey, we pulled …

DAY 7

The next day I was going to need a driver to get me to the railway station. I was based in a region of Mumbai called Malad, which was some distance away, so as long as I could get to a railway station, I could do the rest. The price the hotel charged was what I'd call "kick to ya groin prices" but if needs must! On my way I had to …

Yesterday was quite an early start for my last driving day on Josh. We left Ellora around 530am so we could avoid the heavy traffic in the evening when arriving in Mumbai. It was a beautiful sunny day and when we crossed the bridge coming into Mumbai, I really thought we were in another country. Everything looked so different, almost like home. …

... us. Charlie was in heaven! The feeling of celebrity status we were already picking up from the locals' staring was enhanced at the Gateway of India as a mulleted man and his friend asked to have their pictures taken with us. 'Mullet' had to run a comb ...

... better with her than any of our previous guides and that helped a lot as well.  She took us to the Gateway of India, which was built to commemorate the English reaching Bombay at that spot.  Utterly unimpressive, but a landmark for some ...

... a quick stop at the Gateway of India and then take cover in an air conditioned coffee shop. The Gateway of India is a beautifully constructed archway that is Mumbai's most famous landmark. It was the first sight to see when entering Indian during the ...

... , could have been fun and the start of a Bollywood career.   Elephanta Island was a one hour journey from the gateway of India by boat. The temples are absolutely exquisite and carved straight into the rock like Petra in Jordan. The biggest temple ...

... to the Elephanta Island and toured the Elephanta Caves. To get there, we took a one hour, 10-km boat ride from the Gateway of India in Mumbai. This was an adventure in itself as the boat seemed quite old and struck me as the kind of boat that might not ...

... TV and AC for a £10 a night.   After I'd checked in, I went for a wonder, visited the gateway of India which is Mumbai's own honey coloured Arc de Triomphe. Then went to the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya museum, try saying that ...

... . The ferry is a great way to get to town as we literally stepped off the boat onto the dock where the Gateway to India, one of the main tourist attractions, towered over us. Getting the bikes out of the area and through the security gates was tricky, ...

... they do. I actually pass this everyday to and from the office. We headed down to Malabar Hill and on to Colaba and went to the Gateway of India. On the way we ran into a couple of cows just chilling in the road. While I am getting used to it, I still ...

... style buildings exactly as you would see in London, then as we came almost at our final destination we saw the huge Gateway Of India..a massive arch just by the sea, and then the taxi stopped just off of the harbour area at our hotel...4 floors up. ...

... eating very little but still enjoyed a few treats from the road that luckily stayed down. One of my highlights of Mumbai was seeing the Gateway of India. The arch faces out to Mumbai Harbour from the tip of Apollo Bunder. It was built to commemorate ...