Mumbai (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)

... than a run! We were a little too late to take the trip over to Elephanta Island so instead we took a 'whirlwind tour of Mumbai', taking in the 'Indian Big Ben' (very cheesey!) before we stopped at a Jain temple. The temple inside was beautiful and very ...

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 ...

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)

... and pre and post dinner walks (apparently the walks are called constitutionals???), we got a decent sense as to what Mumbai (Mumbai, Bombay and Bumbai will all be used interchangeably) looked like.  Generally it was run down.  The streets were ...

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)

... 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, Gandhi's Mumbai residence, he lived here for 17 years, and it's now a museum to the great man. He lived in one simple room with a bed ...

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)

· Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, India · GMT +5:30hrs The most appalling city of either hemisphere" - Aldous Huxley A rite of passage It is true that travelers tend to regard time spent in Mumbai as a rite of passage to be survived rather than ...

'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 need for long distance commuting and increase the heavy traffic.  As an example, 7 million people commute through Mumbai's train station day and night.  The 20 million travelers' going through Pierre-Trudeau airport in Montreal yearly is no ...

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

... the desk fan on the dashboard wasn't turned on. We then set off through the crowded, noisy and at times plain crazy roads of Mumbai (Dad, you thought the car park at Heathrow was bad - this would've scared the life out of you!). Ox-drawn carts, sleeping ...

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

... 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 do well ...

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)

... than worthy 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 ...

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)

... finally reunited with our bags and about $50 compensation each which wasn't bad at all for a 24 hour delay. Mumbai itself is reasonably westernized but really intense. Everywhere there are people trying to attract your attention to sell you everything ...

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

... 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 a ...

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

... loads of exciting countries! We 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 ...

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 ...

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 down ...

Mumbai madness
Sep 22, 2008 (10 photos)

... system. Side story: This is a true story an Aussie couple told us a few days ago highlighting the over population in Mumbai. The couple hired a driver in Mumbai and drove off to a quiet hill station. They were spending the night there and in the ...

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

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Last Stop: Mumbai
Jan 30, 2009 (7 photos)

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First News from Mumbai
Sep 30, 2008

... 'd spent in Kuala Lumpur, but now that we've been here a few days we've all managed to slip in the groove of Mumbai life. We've got used to catching auto rickshaws, crossing the road - seriously a mission which requires courage and faith - and bargaining ...

The Dance of the White Peacocks
Apr 29, 2009 (10 photos)

I visit Mumbai's Ranibagh zoo at Byculla regularly as it is a floral paradise with several rare and unusual species, some  more than a century old.   The animals  are in a pathetic condition which is a separate story. ...

Fri. Sept 19th
Sep 20, 2008 (4 photos)

... evening riding in the back of the cab.  That was okay -- we had an early day the next day.   Dhobi Ghats In Mumbai, India, a caste of people toil away doing the city's laundry by hand. It is grueling work, often done in 100-degree heat by ...

Mumbai/Bombay- A Tale of Two Cities.
Jan 9, 2008 (14 photos)

During the 6 months I stayed in Mumbai/Bombay. I got to travel around a fair bit; experiencing day to day life and encountering several adventures along the way. If the truth be known, I found living in India pretty tough at times.  ...