Bombay, India Travel Blogs

the karmic railroad
Dec 13, 2007 (20 photos)

... stream of demands and requests, invitations and offers. after having read 'shantaram' i can't quite stop thinking about the bombay underworld that may (or may not...) have its hands in everything behind the scenes, turning all the small jarring street ...

Gimme gimme gimme... my shoes back!
Sep 14, 2007 (19 photos)

... us being kicked out for being too loud or anything!) so we'll have to fill you in next time of Tom's first case of 'Delhi (Bombay?) Belly' and the rest of what we've been up to. So much to say, so little time!! Hope everyone's well and missing us loads! ...

from bangkok to bollywood
Apr 16, 2005

... were in a taxi with our backpacks hanging precariously out of the trunk, ready (or not) for our first driving experience in bombay. if we had thought the driving had been bad in bangkok and cambodia... we really had no idea about india. there might ...

Mumbai madness
Sep 22, 2008 (10 photos)

... a taxi to the airport that evening, that got a flat tyre, and checked in to our flight to Africa! Cooper Out of India p.s. Tuesday has come and gone, Thursday came and I emailed Ronnie. Hotmail replied, no such address. We laughed. Love Dan & ...

Last day in India and first day on my own again
Mar 1, 2008

... I basically forced my way into.  Here is an excerpt from an email my Mom sent about her impressions of India: Scrambled thoughts at 33,0000 feet Returning from the Indian subcontinent is a journey through time.  I will be catapulted ...

Welcome to Bombay
Feb 28, 2008 (2 photos)

... got to the airport around noon for our trip to Bombay.  The flight was painless but I can't say the same about the traffic in Bombay!  After what seemed like 2 hours in the car we arrived at the hotel and were just in time to go for a short walk ...

Killing time in India
May 24, 2004 (3 photos)

... out. We spent two days in Mumbai, mainly in the tourist district of Colaba. Here's another free travel tip: If you have a date in Bombay, she'll be waiting in Mumbai. (The city changed its name in 1996 as part of an effort to rid itself of reminders of ...

Mumbai, Bombay, Bumbai, Mombay... all the same!
Feb 29, 2008 (13 photos)

... 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 reason.  From there, we ...

Mumbai - Day 2
Feb 26, 2008 (7 photos)

... . Then onto the hanging gardens, now these aren't like the hanging gardens of Babylon. This is where the Indian's hung criminals before India had a police force. It's now a sweet little park with great views of the city. Then my favorite place of the day, ...

Train to the mountains
Apr 2, 2005 (2 photos)

... bike aboard. Won't say it was easy, but never has greasing some palms, issuing some threats and chanting some prayers failed in India! I reach Ambala feeling hot, dusty and very wired (I gulped down endless cups of tea on the ride to pass the time). So, ...

Mumbai - One of two flights today
Nov 27, 2008

After the devasting news from Mumbai we were a little saddened by the events of last night.  No evidence from the air but we were only flying in and out on the same plane the same day.... our hearts go out to those who lost their lives!  ...

A rite of passage
Apr 5, 2008 (7 photos)

... city are any indication. The opening of the Suez canal in Egypt in 1869, and the trade corridors it open, further cemented Bombay's status as India's most prosperous city, a title it still holds today (the city alone accounts for 40% of India's GNP). It ...

'this is for the hearts still beating'
Dec 14, 2007

how to say goodbye? i think maybe that's what i've been trying to figure out these last three months. it's easy to let the routines of the everyday obscure the truth of the way we live our lives. it's easy to close our eyes to that which we cling to, what ...

India's Reality and Mumbai
Dec 9, 2007 (46 photos)

... the middle and low class Indian to have a better quality of life?   This is India's case however and it might be very different for poorer countries where the big organizations of ...

Apprehensive, nervous & the odd excited giggle!
Sep 11, 2007 (12 photos)

... one of those dance mat games, more beeps than Family Fortunes and a cab driver with no idea where he was going... welcome to India Tom & Charlie! To relax our nerves (and our bowels!) a 'room service' curry was had which was easily the best we'd ever ...

Business trip to India
Mar 4, 2006 (11 photos)

... of India, though, has been the food. Unlike much Indian food in the states, which is simply spicy-hot, the food in India has incredibly complex spices. Some of it is hotter than anything I've ever eaten (even hotter than the Thai soup that was previously ...

North India
Dec 22, 2003 (23 photos)

After six months on the road, coming to India has been like a mini-homecoming. First of all, Sharad's parents met us in Bombay a day or two after we arrived, and stayed with us the entire three or four weeks we were in North India. It was great seeing ...

Oh, if all second chances were so worth it...
Dec 3, 2007 (44 photos)

Mumbai is a whole different story. I love it. It is cosmopolitan, it is multicultural, it is artistic, it has a hopping night scene and it is on an island. What more can you ask from a city. It is more of a place to live in than a tourist kind of ...

Mumbai - Day 3
Feb 27, 2008 (13 photos)

... 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 measures 5000 ...

Welcome to Bollywood...What's Your Dream?
Mar 17, 2008 (10 photos)

... adversaries who wouldn't last a New York minute. That said I suddenly had 2 free days on my hands. To be honest, Mumbai or Bombay or whatever you want to call is not really a site seeing city. It is more a stopover on getting out into the real India and a ...

Made it to Mumbai (Bombay)
Oct 22, 2007 (2 photos)

Arrived in Mumbai (Bombay) today and headed for the hotel. Missed the sign for my hotel driver so I took my chances. Ha-ha. The car looked official (I booked it through Avis) but was off the hook. The driver was this young guy in a uniform but chose not to ...

Telecom and IT Quebec Commercial Mission to India
Dec 9, 2007 (5 photos)

Mumbai

Welcome to Bollywood!
Sep 28, 2003 (8 photos)

... about two pounds. When we returned our hotel guy asked us if we'd like to appear as extras on the set of a Bollywood (India's Hollywood) film. We readily accepted as it would be a great introduction to India and early the next morning we jumped onto a bus ...

Mumbai - Day 1
Feb 25, 2008 (5 photos)

... 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 after ...

First Taste Of India.....Mumbai
Mar 4, 2006 (3 photos)

... arrived after a very pleasant BA flight from London yesterday morning, here in Mumbai, or as this huge city is better known...Bombay. At the airport we sorted out a cheap hotel in the travellers district Colaba, at 4quid a night its a bargain...we have ...

Out and About in Bombay
Oct 28, 2007 (21 photos)

... relax for a while. Driving down the hill we passed a place called The Towers of Silence, which is the place Bombay's Parsi community (a religious group) dispose of their dead. They have a wonderful custom of putting the dead body into a towering ...

And so the end.....
Sep 19, 2003

Our overnight trip from Goa to Bombay was fairly pleasant - a very quaint little station with clean places to sit and friendly travellers. Of course it was a different story when we got to Bombay and the taxi tried to take us where HE wanted and then ...

Tina Arrives
Feb 6, 2005 (4 photos)

... . [Some of THE finest architecture I have seen anywhere. Thank goodness for the Raj and the way it made Bombay a civilized, manageable city. The style of archtecture is Indo-Saracenic, blending British and Islamic influences with native style, making for ...

Landing in Mumbai
Jan 5, 2006

Entry into Mumbai went pretty smooth. Going through immigration was easy. No problems. Mumbai is a pretty dirty town. There is debris and rubble every where, garbage everywhere, and rows of people sleeping on the streets. There are many shacks and run ...

F inally escaped Arambol
Mar 10, 2008 (8 photos)

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