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Juste une nuit avant le vol pour Singapore
14/12/2009 : 8h bus pour Santa puis attente de 5 heures pour le train de Mumbai, pour environ 20 heures de trajet sans place assise ni couchette !! / 8 am bus to Satna and then 5 hours later train to Mumbai, for about 20 hours trip without a berth or a seat !!
Ahh.. wonderful, magical, cold & wet.
No w the original title for this post was going to be - Ahh.. Wonderful, magical, warm & a welcome return BUT - .... Oh crikey, where to start?
The hotel was ok, not too far from the airport (Which we wanted) but far enough away from the airport for no bugger to know it.... We got to the prepaid taxi countern (the first place to go if …
The first couple of days in Mumbai
... local art gallery which you can visit for free. There were some incredible paintings and some which were not to our taste at all. Opposite this is a library and reading room but unfortunately only members can go in and relax in the reading room and peruse the books so we continued south where we came across yet another museum. It was set in the ground of a very grand building surrounded by palm trees and more of the huge bats we’d seen in Jaisalmer but ...
Another quiet day
... there is definitely a huge European influence here in Mumbai.
We spent probably about 4 hours walking around the area, we have come to the conclusion that we like Mumbai a lot better than Delhi, the people are very nice, it is a lot cleaner and we feel safer. There are a lot of homeless people in India, one of the stats we were given was that 10% of the population lives on the streets. It is quite sad to see, many mothers with their ...
Day 5
... of a poor boy that was selling books at a traffic light to car drivers holding up Steve Jobs biography (!) Other books he sells on the street are the classic business books from the West: Who moved my cheese, Outliers, The Tipping Point, the world is flat etc. And then think about this: about 40% of the population in India is less than 20 years old(!) That is 500 million young and hungry people! (US population is about 350 mio in ...
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