Eighteen hour night train to Mumbai – sharing 2nd
class compartment with Max, American who is freelance journalist for the NY
Times, moving from Delhi to Mumbai. Intelligent, informative, interesting and
charming company.
BOMBAY! Seashore hotel in Colaba, touristy and backpacker part of town. French restaurant with whole grain large round loaves of bread, yippee.
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| View from our room, Gateway to India |
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| Inside the Seashore Hotel, nice and clean |
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| Another view from our hotel |
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| The monsoon season had not yet ended. |
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| Fishing boats in Bombay harbor. |
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| Feeding pigeons at The Gateway to India |
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| The Taj Palace Hotel on the Colaba waterfront |
Ferry across Mumbai Harbor to the village of Mandwa past 2 oil or gas
platforms, rusted tankers, rusted dredgers. Not much there but peaceful and a
good break from the noise and bustle of the city. Could not find a café for
lunch, and a kind local man invited us into his house, introduced us to his 96
year old father and gave us 3 bananas each.
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| Ferry boats in front of the Taj Palace and Gateway to India |
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| Our ferry to Mandwa |
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| Leaving Mumbai for Mandwa |
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| One of a number of oil platforms in Mumbai Harbor |
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| Standing guard at a local house on Mandwa |
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| Nice old colonial house at Mandwa |
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| More fishing boats with Mumbai in the distance |
Back to Mumbai and 4 days hiking
around town – very crowded market adorned by Rudyard Kipling’s Dad’s friezes.
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| Frieze created by Rudyard Kipling's father almost 100 years ago |
Kalighoda area of current art scene, old synagogue, David Sassoon 200 yr old Library,
gorgeous corner view from hotel room – harbor, Gateway of India, street life
and hundreds of crows. Fed the crows from the window ledge. 1st look
at whole families living on the street. Moms are street sweepers. At night
parents spoon the little kids and by 8 yrs old they are sleeping separately on
the pavement.
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| Mumbai City from Colaba area |
Next: 6 Hour Train to Goa........
