Mumbai, India Travel Blogs

The best curry so far belongs to........Mumbai!
Nov 17, 2008 (1 photos)

... time in the future.....   To the airport in the morning and the first Misha blonde moment when we arrived at the Mumbai international airport for a domestic flight.... Good job taxis are cheap here as after a £4 taxi ride across Mumbai we arrived at ...

the karmic railroad
Dec 13, 2007 (20 photos)

... noon the next day. i had been having pretty good luck with buying train tickets only a few days before the departure. the train to mumbai was the only ticket that i decided to buy well in advance (two weeks) and so (naturally) it was already booked out. i ...

Internet junkies in Mumbai
Feb 9, 2007 (4 photos)

... 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 so ...

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

... 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- ...

Cricket and Bollywood in Bombay
Mar 27, 2007 (15 photos)

... set, 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 ...

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 ...

Mum in Mumbai!
Jan 3, 2004 (3 photos)

... 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 India?!!

Conspicuous Lack of a Midget
Mar 21, 2004 (28 photos)

... 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 the ...

Welcome to Bombay
Feb 28, 2008 (2 photos)

... 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 streets ...

Reality bites
Apr 13, 2005

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

... 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 Dearest!!! ...

Mumbai - Day 2
Feb 25, 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 ...

New Year's Eve in Mumbai
Dec 31, 2006 (5 photos)

... 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 glasses ...

Brides, Bhel Puri, and Bollywood
Dec 19, 2005 (16 photos)

... 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 meet ...

She's Not a Bloody Monkey
Nov 21, 2004 (4 photos)

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 ...

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

... 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 ...

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!  ...

Trip to Bombay (Mumbai)
Sep 29, 2006

We'll tell you about this when we get a chance. It was fun to see the wild metropolis that is Bombay.

A rite of passage
Apr 4, 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 ...

Now things get interesting . . .
Dec 30, 2006 (3 photos)

... 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 so ...

Magical Mumbai..
Dec 20, 2006 (10 photos)

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 stop ...

'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 8, 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 ...

The Good, The Bad and The Mumbai Madness
Sep 24, 2004 (7 photos)

... after whiling away the hours eating in cafes and people watching it was getting time to head back and catch our train (hopefully!) Mumbai is a real mixture, it's so poor but yet so cosmopolitan and me and Rich had quite a pleasant time there even it was ...

Mumbai or Bombay, as you like
Oct 26, 2005 (11 photos)

... those of you doing the reading...so time for a different tack!!!! *MARK AND CLARES REALLY EXCITING AND INTERESTING MUMBAI TOP THIRTEEN* 1. NEW KULFI CENTRE: Mango and pistachio frozen dessert, sort of like icecream made with sweetened condensed milk ...

Mumbai Day 2: Tickets to Goa!
Feb 27, 2006

... 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 ...

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 ...

Trains , Pains and Automobiles
Nov 26, 2004 (3 photos)

... mainland and even has red double decker buses, quite quaint i think. It is possible to get anything you desire in Mumbai from wonderful textiles, silverware, excellent carved deities to the usual pirate CD's from the hawers that line the streets trying to ...

Touchdown. . Mumbai
Feb 26, 2006 (3 photos)

... 8 hours and with the time difference, it was 12 hours later when I finally touched down in Mumbai. Taxiing in, I saw my first bits of India from ground level, shacks next to decent-looking houses, trucks and airport equipment busy being used or sitting ...