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 …

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 …

Looking at the display showing my flight route from Hong Kong to Mumbai, I notice how it crosses several of the countries I've traveled in since December. I am feeling an odd sense of sadness leaving this part of the continent. And especially, to be leaving HK where I had a blast and felt I had fully arrived back in civilization. Before I return …

My time in Mumbai was a complete blur, I've been trying to live as fast as this city moves. Despite my pretty admirable efforts I don't think I can quite claim to have succeeded. Mumbai is Chaos. Total, perfect, madness and its all the better for it. The smells and colours change so quickly and so drastically literally in the space of a few paces …

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Tonight's blog is written by Alan...

Today we hired a driver to take us on a tour of Mumbai, I began my day with a run along the waterfront, I left early as the sun is already hot by 8:15 am. There is a 3km stretch of sidewalk called the Marine walk, along the sea, which is a popular place for locals to walk, jog, …

We woke up at about 7 this morning and went upstairs to a larger room to eat breakfast (toast with strawberry jam) and met the rest of the Volunteers, in total there were 12. I am the only english one and the youngest, most of the others are 20ish and have just graduated or just left employment. We introduced ourselves to everyone and then were …

We actually loved Mumbai (population 21 million) and could have spent more time there. Once we toured the rest of central India, we saw how different Mumbai is from the rest of the country. It's the financial and entertainment capital of the country, home of the world-famous film industry known as Bollywood.

Photos below, the rest of the …

The photos don't really tell much of the story of Mumbai - nothing can convey the noise from the constant car/ truck/ rickshaw/ motorbikes horn's blowing, nor the smog, dirt, rubbish and craziness. The disparity between those with money and those with nothing is hugely evident - just 100 metres down the road from our first hotel in Andheri there …

Best day yet!!!
I started out my day at the hospital. I had a chance to visit the resident's hostels, thanks to Dr. Sachin. He was very kind to show me his place. The rooms are basically like dormitory rooms, shared by either 2 or 3. The hostel is one the 3rd floor of the hospital itself.

That afternoon, we played the tourist role and …

... 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 ...

... , 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. ...

... and the grandest, The Taj Mahal Palace and Tower. (see below for the history) This Taj is across the street from the Gateway of India which is where we pretty much started our trip.  It is a 6 day work week in Mumbai and Sunday evening is ...

... .). Mein Rundgang fuehrt mich weiter nach Colaba an den Hafen. Hier steht das Hotel Taj Mahal Palace and Tower und das Gateway of India, welches hier zur Erinnerung an den Besuch von Koenig George V. (1911) errichtet wurde. Von hier setze ich mit einem ...