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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. ...

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 way, (and sometimes have no choice if it gets crowded). We arrived at Victoria Terminus the main station. Like Bombay is now Mumbai, Victoria Terminus now has a politically correct Indian name but the locals don't adapt to change very well ...

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

The International School of Mumbai

A travel blog entry by mysticzed

... our kids have been there quite a lot but the other kids haven't come to our school. Having now seen the International School of Mumbai, I am not surprised that their kids haven't come to our school yet - I'm not entirely sure they could cope!   On ...

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

Bombay Baby!

A travel blog entry by bengamble

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... stops along the way so it's easy to see how the entire journey will take 26 hours! The past two days were spent in beautiful Bombay (Mumbai). It was such a pleasant surprise. To be honest, I wasn't expecting to like Bombay at all. I was picturing a dirty, ...

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

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

Mum-bollywood

A travel blog entry by brenclarefi

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We got the train down to Mumbai the next day - a gruelling 24hours and the train was 4hours late! Mumbai was really beautiful and has a really European feel. Its almost a mix between Paris and Rome with the hecticness of New York and India on the streets. ...

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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... , we liked him immediately.  We just could not live in this city. Dublin folks..never complain about the traffic there again...Mumbai is NUTS!!! So crowded and sitting in traffic is very much a huge part of your life here. As we drove through the ...

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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... wasnt mine was produced! Despite this gross violation, in my opinion Mumbai was definitely the best city in India. (Allie) Mumbai had a great atmosphere, our hotel was well located which meant we did a fair bit of wandering and getting lost ...

Bombay Dreams, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

Bombay Dreams

A travel blog entry by arvandtherese

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... exclusive and expensive hotel shopping mall we take our first steps onto the streets of Mumbai. If you are planning on taking a trip to India, Mumbai is the place you should visit first, as it will certainly ease you into traveling in India. Things are so ...

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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... these tours. The 4-hour tour was an eye opening and opinion altering experience.  If you go to Mumbai, we would strongly recommend it. India defines a slum as an illegal dwelling on government land.  Although typically poor, they are not all ...

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 ...

Monkeys, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

Monkeys

A travel blog entry by mysticzed

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Monkeys are amazing!  I went to Elephanta Island today with my new flatmates.  We went to see some Hindu temples that are bloody old.  The temples were OK - I took some photos but the monkeys were hilarious!  There are hundreds of ...

All the hassle of a big city without the funny, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

All the hassle of a big city without the funny

A travel blog entry by wrlondon

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Pictures ...

Back to the Madding Crowd, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

Back to the Madding Crowd

A travel blog entry by kasnsqueak

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... ( includes Hong Kong in it) at a street stall nearby. We checked the internet also and confirmed our accommodation in Hong Kong. Mumbai is full of dreadfully disabled beggars and poor non disabled all with their hands out to us. I won’t miss this ...

What time is it??, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

What time is it??

A travel blog entry by 2eejits-explore

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... into) a squat toilet for the first time, then eventually giving in to the three cheekiest and most determined street beggars in Mumbai, by giving them our leftover pizza if they promised to share - they broke their promise and the youngest ran off and ...

landed., Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

landed.

A travel blog entry by naomisg

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After some incredible last minute inefficient packing i've arrived in Mumbai. The flight was pretty incredible, menus, complimentary cocktails, lots of legroom, and seemingly more staff then passengers.  Landed at five past midnight, as Alice, my ...

Day 3, Mumbai - Now who wants my Autograph?, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

Day 3, Mumbai - Now who wants my Autograph?

A travel blog entry by darafly

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... bus journey takes us and a dozen other westerners to Mehboob studios, one of the biggest in the industry. The journey crosses Mumbai, and skirts the slum, the biggest in Asia, containing more than 1m people. Corrugated shacks are piled atop each ...

Mumbai, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

Mumbai

A travel blog entry by cathmandu

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... .  But I am having a incredible time.  So far, I have to say, everything is beyond my expectations.  I landed in Mumbai after midnight, but everything went smoothly.  Got my luggage, paid for the cab, found the cab, woke up the driver, ...

Part I - A Whiz-Bang Trip to the Land of Bollywood, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

Part I - A Whiz-Bang Trip to the Land of Bollywood

A travel blog entry by explr9

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... during my fellowship, and with me living so far away, I figured that I'd have to just come back to India another time to see Mumbai. However, as luck would have it, I got just that opportunity during my fellowship's week-long midpoint retreat which took ...

The Project comes to an end, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

The Project comes to an end

A travel blog entry by shrek3

This entry covers Friday and Saturday - our last two days of work on the two projects we have been involved with. The ladies finished their slum ministry on Friday morning surrounded by dozens of smiling children - especially happy as they were ...

Jo and ''Crazy'' head South, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

Jo and ''Crazy'' head South

A travel blog entry by 2eejits-explore

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... the factor 50 and is already bearing incredible likeness of a tomato, where I continue to hold the title of the palest person in India.  Bar none. So this afternoon we booked our ''sleeper, non-air con'' bus to Goa.  This is where the party ...

Jun 07, 2011, Mumbai (Bombay), India travel blog

Jun 07, 2011

A travel blog entry by julie-mayer

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