Hotel Sahara Star Mumbai (Bombay)

... for 2nd class enjoying the people watching of families and cleaners and porters doing their stuff. The train left right on time and our sleeper consists of 6 bunks per area 3 each side so very cosy and sticky. I was happy to see the chai (tea) sellers come on board and enjoyed a tiny cup of cardamom flavoured milky sweet tea remembering how I liked the chai last visit too. Sleep was erratic and we had to get off at 4am at Aurangabad where we had called the previous evening to book a bed.

... directly into the ocean while people tossed garbage into the sea without a second thought. I blame a lack of education and a lack of government funding towards sanitation projects and povery eradication. Western countries need to realize that India cannot advance like the west this quickly and this push towards modernization needs to be stinted. One thing I must say about Mumbai is the diversity ...

... a botanical treasurehouse. Our family usually goes to the zoo for a pleasant morning stroll once in every odd Sunday or holiday. Pretty uncaged wild birds lurk in the hedgerows and in the tall trees, also home to species of bat. Butterflies are ...

... the hoops and for the next couple of hours had lovely relaxing time. we decided we might as well try checking in again, and as we stood in the line my heart suddenly sunk to my feet. where were our sleeping bags?? we had made the classic travellers mistake of utterly forgetting our newly acquired luggage item - our 2 new sleeping bags (purchased the night before) carefully sealed in a blue plastic bag that i'd labelled with my name and address that morning. panic ...

Me he saltado temporalmente nuestro encuentro con Sandra y Maleni, nuestra aventura en el desierto y la magnifica ciudad de Udaipur (todo vendra a su tiempo), pero los acontecimientos requieren unas palabras... Ante todo, estamos bien y alejadas de la zona donde sucedio todo, y eso es lo importante. Llegamos a la ciudad el miercoles, felices de haber volado y no haber sufrido uno de esos largos viajes en autobus o en tren, y con la risa tonta de no ...

... airport.... Strange as it seemed nicier than the international airport...a lot nicer. Things are looking up..... short flight across to Chennai to catch a connecting flight to Colombo, the flight attendants saw fit to upgrade Mr Fetters.......without him even asking.....but without a one Miss Bakshi.... Serves her right for a) not changing her name before we left and b) having a common surname in India (no offence Bakshi family, their words not mine ...

... followed suit. It rained most of the way back to Mumbai. And it wasn't as though even the rain was enough, we started to get largish waves and as the front of the boat hit them the waves were washing over the deck and so we got our bags and feet soaked as well. Right aligned photo tag: BUT I never got seasick, which was a minor miracle - maybe it was because I was so busy trying to keep dry (unsucessfully) that it took my mind off the waves ...

This highly congested city of over 16 million people is very cosmopolitain and modern yet with plenty of pockets of traditional Indian culture evident in the various areas and suburbs. Whilst the streets are relatively clean compared to the rest of India and people use the pavements as there are pavements which are fairly maintained, half the people here live in slums contrasted with a growing wealth in other parts of the city. That said the slum dwellers, who come from ...

... His wife recently passed away). So in the evening sabha, it was good that all talked. Dinkar uncle had a much general pravachan but it had lots of blessings for everyone. Then at night, after the sabha, we went to a very expensive hotel (Spice and Saffron) with Dinkar Uncle. One of the devotees was throwing a party for his new born son. So attended that and came back. We were dead tired so went to sleep. Again this morning, Guru woke up early and went with ...

... __________0*0*0*°_°____Ô for now, since lunch was to be served soon. I believe it was never given to her before. Á__ _ __Á Á__ _ __ÁI had noticed that during the meals, for the first five days, Shona had never eaten any vegetables, whatsoever. The only things that she would eat is Papard, Roti and Pyrie Mango pulp. I was told by Rupamasi that she did not like vegetables or dhal or Alphonso mangoes, and that she usually eats so much junk in ...