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Mumbai Slideshow
Mumbai
Travel Blogs from Mumbai, India
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 ...
Day 11: Gateway to India
... of Divya's (Arun's fiancée) friends for dinner. We ate at Bombay Blue and nice classic restaurant with modern touch. The traffic in Mumbai is really bad. A normal 45mins trip took us 2 hrs and a bit. Most things are closed on Monday in Mumbai. So ...
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 ...
change of pace
... a pretty tight airplane seat. Next time I'll get an aisle seat. Couldn't see much out the window anyway. I am in Mumbai. Very close to the airport in the same hotel I was in before. Actually this is also the same internet cafe ...
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, ...
Mumbai, Lonavla and Christmas
... nobody cared about either and seemed happy to wish Ms Elizabath (yes 'bath') a good journey. In Mumbai I met Candy, an Australian girl who found India so overwhelming she cried for 3 days then got a flight to London in time for Christmas. This was a ...
Aurangabad to Mumbai - country to city
... train was about an hour late leaving Aurangabad (so we left at 3:30 instead of 2:30) but somehow, we managed to arrive in Mumbai on schedule (7 hours later, at 10:05 p.m.). The train ride was pleasant. We were offered "snacks" - Brent got a ...
Mumbai - Day 1
... . Across the street is a cricket stadium. Down the road we can see the Arabian sea just a block away. Because Mumbai is a modern metropolitan city, and our side wraps in a big curve along the water way, the entire city reminds me much ...
Mumbai - Day 2
... a cinema (it shows one Bollywood movie at 12:30, only one b/c they last many hours) University of Mumbai, Churchgate train station, a clocktower, and the High Court, a beautiful Victorian building. We had bought some ...
My first week at school!
Sunday 12 October Just had really cool day! Went to the Otter's Club with the Parsi guy. It was the most beautiful pool over looking the sea and the rubbish dump.....er, sorry, the beach. No less than 3 diving boards (the ...
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 ...
Mumbai, India
... George Wittet, who also designed the Gateway to India. I've never heard of George. We also saw the Gateway to India, Mumbai's most famous landmark, built in 1911 to commemorate the visit of King George V and Queen Mary. Across the street is the ...
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 ...
Hugo comes to India and gets a job
Just a quick note of explanation and an excuse to upload some more pictures. Hugo arrived on the 14th of November after working for 50 straight hours without sleep on our building in Fort Greene. The flight attendant remarked (in London) that she had ...
Pigs
... south of Goa, and then up into Goa, where we rented a scooter and spent a few days exploring the tiny state. Now we are in Mumbai, and on Monday fly back to Delhi, from where we will explore a little of the north before coming home. *if you can't ...
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 ...
Jun 07, 2011
Last Day in India
... Sad to say, the WAITING, along with the general hassle, all took place in the North of the country, and from Mumbai onwards everything has become a lot easier and fluffier. Why then the northern areas of India, such as Delhi, Agra and ...
Butterflies
I'm afraid to be happy. 15 days hence I begin a journey I dream't of when I was all of 10. Now, 23 years later, that dream seems to be increasingly giving in to reality. And I'm afraid. Afraid that reality might finally win. Afraid that I will ...
Salaam Bombay
... by going to the beach resort area of Goa. They were stressed because they could sense that things weren't going too well in Mumbai, and they had absolutely no confidence that everything was going to go well in Goa. That will remain to be seen, ...
Around Mumbai
... space. Go take a look and see what you think for yourself. It has been a strange introduction to India this time. Mumbai is very different from Chennai and Delhi AND it was almost 20 years ago when we here last. Having ...
Mumbai Airports
Well, after lovely Singpore airport, Mumbai International airport was always going to be a disappointment. We landed half an hour early. I was left to wander around alone, trying to get people to give me the right directions to get to the domestic ...
Flamingoes of Bombay at Sewri Mudflats
Lesser flamingoes migrate en masse from the Rann of Kutch to the mudflats in Mumbai Port between December and early May each year. On this visit, we were privileged to see them much closer to the shoreline than on previous occasions. Here they are: ...
BEEEEEEEEEEP BEEEEEEEEEEEP!
... The bags were thrown on the roof and tied on by what i think was a shoe lace and away we went.....The roads in Mumbai are unbelievably Micky mouse, most have no road markings and that along with some cars not even having any lights and ours not having ...
trying to finish last entry
... so kind and made me feel like such a part of their family. And I could make them all laugh just by mangling their language. That's very cool. So a bunch or taxis and a airplane ride later and I'm in Mumbai again. Did I mention it's ...
Mumbai
... seat belt sign had been switched off, completely ignoring the flight attendent plead for all passengers to remand seated, only in india! mumbai feels completely different to delhi, much more modern, young and western. its baking hot out here at the ...
Fly Kingfisher
Kingfisher airlines were much better then Virgin were last time. They were on time (as you would expect from an Indian airline) and you even got a menu for the food! I slept most of the way and Sy insisted he couldnt sleep sitting up then fell straight ...