Taj Palace Mumbai

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... takes you through the largest slum in Asia.  It can be extremely overwhelming, and incredibly heartbreaking. We arrived at the Taj Palace and Tower hotel, which is actually a tourist spot in and of itself. The Palace hotel is 103 years old ...

... off after that and headed in to Colaba wandering though the streets and down to the Gateway of India monument by the Taj Palace hotel via a stop at the famous Leopold's cafe (anyone who has read Shantaram will understand this). Interestingly, both ...

... like Marble-Arch-by-the-sea. This is the area of Mumbai that was shot up in the terrorist attacks in November 2008; the Taj Palace Hotel overlooks the open space around India Gate. The hotel was open but I had neither reason nor time to go inside. I ...

... the gate after independence. With the Gateway to your back, you're faced with yet more grandeur from a by-gone era. The Taj Palace Hotel, a towering mix of classical colonades and red Italian cupolas glistening mildly in the weak monsoon sun was built in ...

... . We did the touristy thing on the first day and visited the Gateway of India, the Taj Palace and the University of Mumbai. The Taj Palace was one of the locations attacked by Muslim terrorists in 2008. Security is quite tight, so you have to be frisked ...

... more expensive than the rest of India, even the capital Dehli. Standing on lively Chowpatty beach gazing at the formidable Taj Palace, its hard to imagine that it’s also home to the largest slum in India. Amazingly slum dwellers actually make up ...

... for our night train but also managed a brief boat trip in the harbour with views of the Gateway to India and the famous Taj Palace hotel. Whilst brief the journey managed to include a soaking from the filthy sea and a crash with the navy who decided to ...

... of India.  We did manage to check out a few old relics from the days of the Raj though, including the very nice Taj Palace hotel - how the other half live, and we also visited the 'Prince of Wales' museum.  Interestingly, like London's British ...

... Gateway of India, built in 1911 to commemorate the visit of George V. It looks out over the harbour and next to it is the Taj Palace and towers- a posh hotel built in 1903. On our way we ended up walking (by accident) into the sums that border the ...

... of pigeons that congregate around a little man who sells seeds in front of it! Our hotel was round the corner from the Taj Palace Hotel which is an incredible building - 546 luxury rooms, 5 restaurants and a nightclub inside! We found some fantastic ...

... So because we were rushed to the tourist section we unknowingly got a hotel room which was about a block and a half away from the Taj Palace Hotel (the one that was attacked).  I feel ok telling you all this now that we have safely left ...

... be it on the pavement with your family or amongst your veggies at the market! Our comprehensive day tour with our guide started at 9. The Taj Palace hotel is where we are treating ourselves to tea on our return visit to Mumbai before we head home. It is a ...

... Dwellers Assoc., that's encouraging) to the calm touristy part of town by the water where we're staying now. teh taj palace where the 11-26 terror attacks happened has a "memorial--3 layers of security."  I had some amazing ...