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Meltin' Mumbai
A Travel Blog entry by planet_wylie from Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, India
... nbsp; We never spotted the famous movie star, but we enjoyed our sunset walks on the beach. Other famous residents of Mumbai live in Malabar Hill- the highest point in the city. It was a great vantage point from which to see the city ...
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Never Driving in Mumbai... Ever
A Travel Blog entry by aquietamerican from Mumbai, India
My ride from the Mumbai airport to the Oberoi hotel was equally eventful. I quickly realized that my driver in Delhi wasn't insane...he was actually tame by Mumbai standards. The traffic patterns in Mumbai are an in comprehensible swirling mass of cabs, ...
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Cochin and Mumbai
A Travel Blog entry by linda_allen from Mumbai (Bombay), India
... "Mumbai used to be like Boston," explained the wife of a billionaire over lunch at Tiffin, an airy power-lunch spot in the Oberoi Hotel where the wealthy dine on sushi. She spoke on the condition that I not use her name, because she is a member ...
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Mumbai has been attacked
A Travel Blog entry by 50odd from Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, India
... night on our way back to the hotel with me saying to Dave 'we must go there') VT railway station, the central market and the Oberoi Hotel. The news so far (and there's not a lot of it coming through in India, it's just hearsay from people in the ...
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Mumbai Meandering
A Travel Blog entry by randfamily from Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, India
... ; Mubarak was friendly about answering all my questions as we drove the 60-minute trip from the International Airport to our hotel in South Mumbai. I was incredibly hopped up to be in a place we had never been before, where the crowds and the ...
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Amazing Muggy Mumbai
A Travel Blog entry by mlcabby from Mumbai, Singapore and Perth, India
... took about an hour to pass through customs and security with Mum, Dad and Lachie. From the airport we traveled by taxi to The Oberoi, Mumbai; the taxi ride was the scariest in my life as traffic rules are virtually nonexistent over here. The ride cost 401 ...
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Back to Mumbai!
A Travel Blog entry by mlcabby from Mumbai, Mahārāshtra, India
Day 04: Today we traveled back to Mumbai. We caught the 7 o'clock flight and arrived back in Mumbai at 8 am. Unfortunetly we got stuck in seats behind a screaming baby and in front of an angry elderly lady. We were picked up by The Oberoi Staff in ...
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First Impressions of Mumbai
A Travel Blog entry by edip.okur from Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, India
... for the new adventure..... First impressions have been much less daunting then I had expected. On arrival into Mumbai, worked my way to the baggage carousel which had everyone fighting to get to the front with the anticipation that their ...
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Mumbai the day after the attack
A Travel Blog entry by 50odd from Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, India
28 th November 2008 Bentleys Hotel, Colaba, Mumbai Cloudy, hot and humid Today we woke up a reasonable hour (0930) given that we were in bed asleep at 1030 last night unable to keep our eyes open AGAIN. The room rate (1360 ...
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Living it up in Mumbai
A Travel Blog entry by dynamite_dinah from Mumbai (Bombay), India
... Saturday lunch. I finished it off with a very expensive cup of tea in the air-conditioned Hilton Oberoi Towers. That evening a guy came to the hotel and the hotel manager summoned me and they asked if I'd like to be in a Bollywood movie ...
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Mumbai, AGAIN!
A Travel Blog entry by mlcabby from Mumbai, India
... bindis are so pretty, all different colours with a gold outline. One of the saris I bought was from Virtues and can be seen in my photo book. Mum and I then traveled back to the hotel where we spent the rest of the day. Hope to keep in touch, ...
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Mumbai - Day 3....
A Travel Blog entry by edip.okur from Mumbai (Bombay), India
... slow down a bit ... but hardly means for them to stop). I arrived at my destination - probably about 1-2kms from the hotel for a cost of 20 Rs....thats 50cents. The markets and the street stalls are a total buzz especially around the lunch ...
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Blog 9: Taj Mahal Hotel and the Terror Attacks
A Travel Blog entry by shoberg from Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, India
... ; The terrorists had planned to kill over 5,000 people and they attacked in South Bombay, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (train station) Oberoi Trident, Leopold Café, Cama Hospital, Nariman House, and the Metro Cinema. ...
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A taste of the real Mumbai
A Travel Blog entry by hgaynor from Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, India
... was a great casual night with new friends that I won't soon forget. Onto today...today I will spend the day with our Mumbai team at their offices. I'm looking forward to seeing the space and to going through what's new at the company with them and ...
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DHOBIS, DABBAWALLAS, TERRORISTS AND BOLLYWOOD
A Travel Blog entry by kmac55 from Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, India
... target, the centerpiece being the historic Taj Mahal Hotel. Other key locations were Cafe Leopold, a bomb in a taxi, the Oberoi Hotel, a Jewish center and Victoria Station. The two who open-fired on the customers in Cafe Leopold killed ...
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Almost home time!
A Travel Blog entry by mlcabby from Mumbai, India
... . We then traveled to Art Gallery. The art was amazing but a few pieces were different to Western art. We returned to Indigo for lunch and then traveled back to The Oberoi Hotel and packed our bags, ready to return home. Hope to keep in touch, ...
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We Made It
A Travel Blog entry by melimeli from Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, India
... city from the Queens Necklass to a Hindu temple on Malabera Hill (no idea of the spelling) to Ghandi's residence in Mumbai and the bombed out Oberoi hotel. dont know what we will do for the next few hours and god only knows what the bus will be like but ...
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It Still Is Bombay To Many
A Travel Blog entry by worldcruise from Mumbai, India
... a lighter note, we decided to escape the sites and sounds of the streets on our second day, so we took a taxi to the Oberoi Hotel for some shopping and lunch. Tina bought a couple of Indian outfits for herself in a shop aptly named "Christina." We then ...
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How hot is it? It's so hot that...
A Travel Blog entry by hgaynor from Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, India
... or my husband. After my stroll along the water, I headed inside for a walk in the mall that runs between my hotel and the adjacent Oberoi. The Oberoi is the other hotel the terrorists stormed on 11/26/08 and where many more lives were lost. In fact, the ...
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Nariman Point, Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, India
Multi-story modern Hotel, architectural details, decor in tones of jade, blue, peach and green; overlooking the Arabian Sea.
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