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Mumbai Slideshow
Mumbai
Travel Blogs from Mumbai, India
We like it!
This is a top pick! ... a far softer introduction to India. Having said that maybe we are just getting used to the feel of India because we met an English guy here for whom Mumbai was his first port of call and he hated it the first couple of days. Hard to tell! ...
The last cow
This is a top pick! ... their stalls along Colaba. Bicycles balanced precariously with single-stemmed roses careen past to some other vendor. I meet my first cow in Mumbai, a lovely cream-coloured two-year-old, haltered to a post. How could I have forgotten cows? And what is ...
Gimme gimme gimme... my shoes back!
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Internet junkies in Mumbai
This is a top pick! ... urge to buy a logoed t-shirt. Mumbai has been like a little civilization vacation. If you are planning on taking a trip to India, Mumbai is definitely the place you should come first, as it will certainly ease you into traveling in India. Things are ...
from bangkok to bollywood
This is a top pick! ... since we woke up in a bed and had a shower, and we were positively loopy by the time our (delayed, go figure) flight to Mumbai took off. our flight had a brief layover in Delhi, and it was about 1am India time when we landed- according to our bodies- ...
Last day in India and first day on my own again
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Mum in Mumbai!
This is a top pick! ... considering the size of the city and huge number of homeless people. Before heading to the train station for an overnight journey to Udaipur in Rajasthan, mum actually cried as she didn't want to leave Mumbai - who said she wasn't going to like ...
Welcome to Bombay
This is a top pick! ... our drive 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 ...
Cricket and Bollywood in Bombay
This is a top pick! ... , but could witness in almost any house that had a television--The World Cup--cricket, that is. Unfortunately, as I was in Mumbai, India, with its Glamor Boy players, did not even make it to the Super Eight, losing to their smaller neighbors Bangladesh ...
Conspicuous Lack of a Midget
This is a top pick! ... a good thing because we were meeting our very good friend Kim who came all the way from New York to travel southern India with us. Mumbai, formerly Bombay, was the gateway to India during British colonial days and even has a very impressive gate down by ...
Mumbai, Bombay, Bumbai, Mombay... all the same!
This is a top pick! ... I don't know if I've ever had before or will ever have again. I am absolutely certain that my experience in India would have been much less powerful without her there to view and discuss things with. Thanks so much for coming Mother ...
Reality bites
This is a top pick! ... (harvest festival) celebration is exciting to watch. Before I know it, I am at the station loading my bike onto the train for Mumbai. Like all good things, my trip has also come to an end. A mountain of paperwork awaits me at office but my memories of ...
Mumbai - Day 2
This is a top pick! ... 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 madness
This is a top pick! ... caste 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 ...
New Year's Eve in Mumbai
This is a top pick! ... anxiously, we ventured out into the streets again. An hour or so more of maniacal taxi driving takes us to Breach Candy Hospital, the Mumbai landmark where we are to meet Rajesh. He is a tallish man in his 40s with a happy, clean-shaven face, thick ...
She's Not a Bloody Monkey
This is a top pick! According to the guide book & press we've read, Mumbai is the premiere city of India. It's the financial power-house, the home of Bollywood with its rich & famous actors. God knows where these people actually live & spend their money because it wasn't in ...
Shanti, Shanti
This is a top pick! ... hiatus from blogging I think I have finally found the strength to capture in writing some of the amazing experiences I've had here in India. Prior to arriving everyone had one thing to say about India, "you either love it or hate it." I tend to fall ...
Heat and Horns: Impressions from Mumbai
This is a top pick! ... better than I ever could: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal_Palace_%26_Tower http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_of_india http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhatrapati_Shivaji_Terminus But, I have to say I am ready to leave. For all of ...
A rite of passage
This is a top pick! · 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 ...
Train to the mountains
This is a top pick! ... unplanned. That makes travel a lot like life, doesn't it? One of the aspects that I left to fate was getting my bike from Mumbai to Ambala on the train. And since fate is a major part of what keeps the Indian Railways up and running, I did manage to ...
Sacred cows, cheeky monkeys, tasty fish, and beer!
This is a top pick! ... assumptions are made, there are no elephants on Elephanta island. It is a small island 11 km away from the city in Mumbai’s large harbour that is named for a large elephant statue that once stood guard over a series of caves. The caves ...
Magical Mumbai..
This is a top pick! Greetings from Mumbai. India's largest and richest city is our last stop in the wild ride that is India. We were very excited to be getting to Mumbai not only for it's reputation as the 'Paris of the Sub-Continent' but also as it would be the last ...
Brides, Bhel Puri, and Bollywood
This is a top pick! ... I wanted to leave and never return to. Christ, even LA has a couple of redeeming features. Thankfully, however, my presence in Mumbai had a much more pleasant and exciting meaning than simple travelling. The reason I was here for the next week was to ...
Now things get interesting . . .
This is a top pick! ... confers vigorously with some colleagues as to the location of our hotel, shrugs his shoulders and we chug away into the chaos of Mumbai. Either Gandalf has been in this business for so many years that he is supremely confident at his job or he is ...
India's Reality and Mumbai
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
The Good, The Bad and The Mumbai Madness
This is a top pick! ... ?! We left our rucksacks at the hotel and went to re-buy our train tickets for that evening and to take a walk round Mumbai. After triple confirming our train tickets we bought tickets to see the latest bollywood movie and took a walk into the park ...
Trip to Bombay (Mumbai)
This is a top pick! We'll tell you about this when we get a chance. It was fun to see the wild metropolis that is ...
How to leave Bombay
This is a top pick! ... . Enjoy your ice cold lime juice and the air conditioning. 44 - Decide that Bandra is perhaps the Kits of Mumbai. 45 - Go to the local theatre, stand for the national anthem which plays before every movie here, and watch a 3 ...
Mumbai Day 2: Tickets to Goa!
This is a top pick! ... and eating delicious free snacks that the attentive staff served us with a smile. I am beginning to feel a bit less overwhelmed by Mumbai, a little more confident, but there is not much to do here, pubs are very rare, and the sadness of the diseased ...