Mumbai (Bombay)
Travel Blogs from Mumbai (Bombay), India
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. ...
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 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
... 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!
... 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, ...
Concrete Jungle, Rat Race
... 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 approached ...
Mum-bollywood
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
... , 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 ...
Violated
... 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
... 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
... 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
... 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 ...
Monkeys
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 ...
Back to the Madding Crowd
... ( 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??
... 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.
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?
... 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
... . 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
... 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
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
... 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 ...

