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Mumbai Airport, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

Mumbai Airport

A travel blog entry by littlelow

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  The night before we left Palolem, again unknown to us, another celebration was going on, we were sat in the restaurant eating and then music and locals dancing came down the street, it was firecrackers and fireworks again and loads of dancing and ...

Flowers Birds Butterflies etc in my terrace garden, Mumbai [Bombay], India travel blog

Flowers Birds Butterflies etc in my terrace garden

A travel blog entry by indianature

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From my terrace garden in Mumbai.   Let the photos speak for themselves!   Updated every now and then.  Also included are some wild orchids of this region which Ive collected from a forest which is now destroyed - a dam site in ...

Mar 01, 2010, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

Mar 01, 2010

A travel blog entry by zdebar

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7 hours in Mumbai, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

7 hours in Mumbai

A travel blog entry by benneesham

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Mumbai is a dump. OK I'm sure there is a nice part....somewhere. All I can say is slums and industrial estates...and the heat! wow!! (has any one read Shantaram?) Even killing 7 hours here between trains is tiresome and horrible, I cant imagine 7 days ...

Hampi, Goa, Mumbai & Jaipur, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

Hampi, Goa, Mumbai & Jaipur

A travel blog entry by lesurfr

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Hampi, Goa, Mumbai & ...

Day 132: The Most Interesting Man in the World, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

Day 132: The Most Interesting Man in the World

A travel blog entry by gascon

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... spend time with back home, in a comfortable apartment watching American television, after navigating the intensely discomforting commute through Bombay dodging thousands of people who have no way to possibly understand our existence…Such is ...

Mararajah John, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

Mararajah John

A travel blog entry by rainbowpaula

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... torturous visits. I'm afraid they have no patience for his whinging either. Cricket has been the great equalizer in this eqaution. India is cricket mad and from his hospital bed dad has been enjoying watching the NZ vs India test and the ...

Vilde Mumbai, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

Vilde Mumbai

A travel blog entry by rosainasia

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Foerste indtryk af Indien Vildt, skoert og eksotisk. Selv i lufthavnen kunne man maerke en helt anden stemning. Saa en dame i tiger-moenstret burka :D Indien er som taget ud af en bollywood film, selvom folk mod min forventning endnu ikke pludselig er ...

Visas / aka Zoe is an Idiot!, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

Visas / aka Zoe is an Idiot!

A travel blog entry by mysticzed

... Holi, as school would be closed anyway.  I raced down to the internet café and frantically started looking at India's neighbouring countries:  Nepal, Thailand, Sri Lanka - all were soooo expensive!   Then I suddenly remembered Dubai, ...

Throw Mamraj From the Train, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

Throw Mamraj From the Train

A travel blog entry by gascon

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... way back to the station, to catch a train to Bombay en route to our journey up to Jaipur in Rajasthan. Our arrival back in Bombay was met with a torrential downpour, something I won’t go into too much detail about other than to say there is not much ...

Touching, Poking Proding....Didi is not a toy!!, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

Touching, Poking Proding....Didi is not a toy!!

A travel blog entry by mysticzed

I am beginning to feel like everybody's public property!  From the minute I walk into school to the minute I leave I am constantly prodded and poked and sometimes hit by absolutely everybody!  They have no idea of personal space in this ...

"Hello, Hello" from Mumbai

A travel blog entry by shrek3

After 4 days in Mumbai, my prspective of the place has changed sooooo much. We are staying at Hotel Samadhan Residency which is just minutes away from the slums where we work. Our stay is quite comfortable. Good food is available next door. We start work ...

Day 129: From the Mountains to Bombay..., Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

Day 129: From the Mountains to Bombay...

A travel blog entry by gascon

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... tarmac.  By this time we had been traveling for over fifteen hours and I was thrilled to board an actual jet to Bombay.  Erica found my excitement about the novelty of flying, little cups of tea, and airline magazines amusing, but it helped ...

Sista, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

Sista

A travel blog entry by jocke

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Jag spelat streetfotboll med nagra ungar, hamtat ut mina skraddarsyddaskjortor och atit den godaste middagen nagonsin. Sitter och tar min sista chai nu och sen ar jag pa vag hem. ...

Waterfalls, frog plagues and HELL, Bombay, India travel blog

Waterfalls, frog plagues and HELL

A travel blog entry by gillybean

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... and that you will provide me with the same next time you go on holiday. With love from filthy and frustrating, yet beautiful, amusing and fascinating India, Gillian xx POST SCRIPT: HAVE ARRIVED BACK IN MELBOURNE ONLY 12 HOURS LATER THAN ...

In at the deep end, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

In at the deep end

A travel blog entry by byrnedm

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... which I tend to agree with! ***************************************** Update - April 2008 **************************************** So, our first stop, Bombay, India. Boy that place was unbelievable. Like nothing I ever experienced before (or ...

ON THE ROAD TO BOMBAY, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

ON THE ROAD TO BOMBAY

A travel blog entry by ant_steer

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... . The details off the internet sounded good: - Overview Hotel Heritage is one of the leading 3 Star hotels in Bombay, the dream city of India. Hotel Heritage is renowned for its state-of-the-art facilities, and quality service. Hotel Heritage is ...

The International School of Mumbai, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

The International School of Mumbai

A travel blog entry by mysticzed

... ; It was truly humbling to see how little these kids honestly have.  I mean, I know how little they have but somehow in India things never fail to surprise you.  Actually I understood why they didn't want to sit on the seat of the loo.  In ...

Bombay Baby!, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

Bombay Baby!

A travel blog entry by bengamble

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... , it is a very developed and well-kept city full of the friendliest and most helpful people we've met in India to date. Liz and I decided to couchsurf in Bombay for two reasons. First, it's free! So it's a great way to make up for any overspending we've ...

Shvitz and Sensory Overload, Bombay, India travel blog

Shvitz and Sensory Overload

A travel blog entry by mjs81

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So I have finally arrived in Bombay. I cannot even describe the sensory overload that occured once I arrived. To start off...the flights in were totally uneventful. Behind me on my flight from Amsterdam however was an Indian girl that looked exactly like ...

mumbai, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

mumbai

A travel blog entry by loelai

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mumbai ...

Concrete Jungle, Rat Race, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

Concrete Jungle, Rat Race

A travel blog entry by col.caf

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... nervous feeling as I approach a new destination. This was particularly true as I was on my way to Nepal and from Nepal to India.  Mumbai was somewhere I had imagined would be a challenge and it had made me nervous a few months back.  As I ...

Mum-bollywood, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

Mum-bollywood

A travel blog entry by brenclarefi

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... streets. We stayed on Colaba Causeway which is the main shopping area. We did all the touristy bits of Gateway to India, drinks in Leopolds (old colonial tourist hangout) and shopped on Colaba. Then we ended up in the seventh circle of hell as ...

Mumbai, Magic  Lecture and The Indian Derby, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

Mumbai, Magic Lecture and The Indian Derby

A travel blog entry by ruairioc

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... our winnings (still coming to terms with the volume of people) we visited a beachfront area call Nariman point and the gate of India. Next day I had my magic lecture but was really really ill. Took some medicine which kept me going and we headed off ...

It's actually completely fine..., Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

It's actually completely fine...

A travel blog entry by paulandhannah

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Violated, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

Violated

A travel blog entry by rtwmurraystyle

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... surprised to find out that the Portuguese had owned it first and indeed it was them and not us who had named it Bombay. Apparently that means beautiful bay or something and that is quite accurate as it is much prettier than I thought it would ...

Bombay Dreams, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

Bombay Dreams

A travel blog entry by arvandtherese

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... bar area where we perch on a couple of bar stools.Therese has her first proper Gin & Tonic since Delhi – Bombay Saphire and Scweppes- deliciously refreshing. The bar is packed and noisy with western rock music playing in the background.Having ...

Day 53 - Visiting the Dharavi Slum, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

Day 53 - Visiting the Dharavi Slum

A travel blog entry by craigadventure

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... white collar) in order to afford the rent in the slum.  Those who work IN Dhavari are commonly migrant workers from northern India who work 60hrs a week for 10 months in order to return to their families for 2 months.  This theme of migrant ...

Bombastic last day in India, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

Bombastic last day in India

A travel blog entry by lnb203

... of his excellent novels - the Eros theatre, Marine Drive, Nariman Point and Chowpatty Beach. His books are centred around Bombay's small but distinguished Parsi community, and I'd also wanted to see some of their religious sights - most notably the Tower ...

The Most Interesting Man in Colaba, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

The Most Interesting Man in Colaba

A travel blog entry by gascon

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... when everything went down.  He was luck to avoid getting shot!  He eventually found himself at the Bombay Yacht Club located across the street from the India Gate and around the corner from the Taj Hotel. We felt quite honored to be his guest ...

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