Bombay
Travel Blogs from Bombay, India
Mumbai Airport
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
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 ...
7 hours in Mumbai
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 ...
Day 132: The Most Interesting Man in the World
... 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
... 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
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!
... 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
... 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!!
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
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...
... 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
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
... 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
... 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
... . 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
... ; 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!
... , 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
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 ...
Concrete Jungle, Rat Race
... 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
... 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
... 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 ...
Violated
... 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
... 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
... 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
... 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
... 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 ...
