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Travel Blogs from Mumbai, India
November / December '09 - Wildflower Surprise
Two morning walks along the Silondha Trail in the last week of November and first week of December, saw the forest carpeted in blue purple Eranthemum Roseum wildflowers. The flowering was profuse, more so than I have ever seen here ...
Madness of Mumbai
... ! We couldn't believe it, we had ony been out of the guesthouse 10mins! We wandered on and checked out the Gateway to India (a big colonial style archway on the waterfront) adn then headed to a cafe for our first breakfast, a strange sort of curried ...
Day 9: The Cosmo Mumbai
... brush and mouth. Better to be safe than sorry. After lunch I decided to go and check out one of the largest shopping center in Mumbai. (I am not sure if this is the biggest one in India). The lonely planet fails to mention this but I think it has to ...
Bombing Into Bombay
... state so we don't get too excitable and start rioting or something... When we finally arrived in Bombay (thats the old name for Mumbai, infinitely better and a damn sight easier to say) we arranged for a prepaid taxi at the little booth, what? I ...
Welcome to India!
After some 26 hours of travel we arrived in Mumbai and what a difference from Armenia! Perhaps not quite as hot but very humid as we noticed as soon as we left the airport: it was like hitting a wall! I don't really kow where to start there's so much ...
Terrorists and Travellers.
... these from now on). The rock temples created between 450 and 750 AD have UNESCO World Heritage status and are Mumbai's premier tourist attraction. Inside the main human excavated cave temple are a number of large sculpted panels all relating to ...
Party like it's 2062: The Indian New Year
Party like it's 2062: Diwali and Indian New Year in Mumbai The city pulsated in a celestial dance of lights. Every balcony of every house was bathed in a glowing red, yellow, and green display of Diwali spirit. There was electricity in the air-and ...
Mumbai Airport
... the 20th, then caught a flight from Goa to Mumbai, when we arrived we found out our next flight was from a different airport in Mumbai, we flew into the domestic airport and needed to fly out of the International airport. So got a taxi there, mad mad taxi ...
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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 ...
Turmoil in Transit
... time we were in an Airbus A330, the women in front reclined the second we left Indian soil, but after my experience in Mumbai airport a cramped five hour flight seemed like a holiday. After nibbling through a weird vegetable sandwich, I tried to get some ...
Backtracking to Mumbai
... . After that its a bit hazy. I want to get north but its a nightmare finding out which trains go from where. Only 6 1/2 hours left in Mumbai and im fast running out of things to do. Ive already sat in a bar for two hours reading. Cant walk the streets for ...
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 or ...
Prologue
This was written on completion of the trip. As telephone networks were rarely available in the rockies, I chose to keep notes using traditional pen and paper promising myself that I would transcribe them to digital ink on return. This is the first such ...
The Mumbai Returns
Ok. I am revising my tentative thoughts about India from yesterday. After I posted the blog I bought some beautiful shirts and some new trousers that actually fit and were still really cheap. Like Primark in price but Gap in quality. I also went on "The ...
Mumbai: Tickling All the Senses
... across South Asia and Africa. With a one-way ticket, we boarded the first of three flights that would get us to Mumbai, India. [Before 1996, this frenetic city was known as Bombay] After almost two days of flying (with time changes), which included a ...
Feliz ano nue...que?..aqui no?
... fulminante diciendo que los indios no celebran el ano nuevo el 31 de Dic, eso fue idea de los britanicos, y ellos estuvieron en India "solo" 200 o 300 anos, el ano nuevo se celebra el 27 de Enero, ahi si tendrian fiestas auspiciadas por el estado, ...
Bombay or should I say Mumbai
Mo's Entry New Years in Mumbai! We thought we'd find a crazy party and bring in the New Year in style. Little did we know we'd sleep right through it! We started off well and found a deluxe hotel and set off to meet our friend Eli (met ...
Indian contrasts
... next day i did a whole lot more wandering and also checked out some of the touristy sites. I came to a few conclusions. Mumbai really is India's most global city. It's the hub of the Indian IT, entertainment (Bollywood), business and cultural ...
Shoppingtour
Bereits um 9 Uhr weckte ich Martina voller Tatendrang. Mit Snickers zum Fruehstueck haengten wir an den Strand und kaempften im Meer gegen Riesenwellen. Nach dem Mittagessen gingen wir auf zum Shoppen. Indien ist bis jetzt das einzige Land, das wir ...
Martina als Shootingstar
... of Wales Museum, welches mit der gewaltigen Kuppel aussah wie eine indische Moschee. An der Kueste betrachteten wir den Gateway of India, eine Art Triumphbogen direkt an einem kleinen Hafen, direkt beim Hotel, wo 2008 die Terror-Attacke war. Martina ...
Day 132: The Most Interesting Man in the World
... at 11:30pm. I relayed our crazy commute stories, and all were quite proud to have a world renowned photographer working in Mumbai, and much to Erica’s chagrin I was consoled that everyone has wanted to kill an auto rickshaw driver in their ...
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
... :D Indien er som taget ud af en bollywood film, selvom folk mod min forventning endnu ikke pludselig er brudt ud i dans. Oev.. Mumbai Har med en population paa 18 mio. naesten 4 gange flere indbyggere end danmark. Den er vild, beskidt og super ...
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
One would think that if a group of people check into a hotel at 4am, they wouldn't be back up at 7am making a ruckus. But that is exactly what our neighbors did at the Panchavati Guesthouse hotel and we were again struck by the absurdity of how swiftly ...
Day 8: Mumbai - The city that never sleeps
... where most of the Bollywood Actors and Actress lives. More on that later. After the tour packed visit of North India, I wanted to chill out more in Mumbai for the first few days. I hailed down an AutoRickshaw (locally called Auto) and asked him to ...
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 ...