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Travel Blogs from Mumbai (Bombay)

Mumbai: It's good to be back

A travel blog entry by choyt1427

Mumbai
As soon as I entered the arrivals area at the Mumbai airport I got a sense of the familiar. I remembered waiting by the same luggage carousel two years ago. It took a good long while for my luggage to finally arrive, but the lovely driver from the Taj hotel was waiting for me on the other side.

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Elephanta Island

A travel blog entry by choyt1427

Choyt1427 stayed here on Dec 1, 2009 during their trip titled: India: Take Two.

You say Bombay, I say Mumbai

A travel blog entry by choyt1427

Mumbai: The Gateway of India. Until recently, this city was known as Bombay. The Mumbai airport is over 1 1/2 hours from the city center so we braced ourselves for another long, and bumpy ride. The ride from the airport to the city actually takes you through the largest slum in Asia. It can be extremely overwhelming, and incredibly heartbreaking. …

Bollywood here we go...

A travel blog entry by crosby82

We were heading for the station via those bloody jeeps again, to be fair they weren't that bad and we finally had the sense to open the sides for more air. Aircon in India usually only means working windows. We were at the station in good time, over an hour early, so definitely no jumping on the train fiascos. We all stocked up for the night at the …

"Wherever you'll be, you'll be in my heart"

A travel blog entry by dreamingawake

Yesterday was quite an early start for my last driving day on Josh. We left Ellora around 530am so we could avoid the heavy traffic in the evening when arriving in Mumbai. It was a beautiful sunny day and when we crossed the bridge coming into Mumbai, I really thought we were in another country. Everything looked so different, almost like home. …