We got in off a train late at night (again) and it took about 20mins to get a taxi. There were loads of them but all the rip off merchants seemed to be congregated around the station. We eventually got a fair for 10% of the first few prices we were quoted.
We set off next morning on a walk round the city. We are staying in an area called Colaba, the backpacker type place and from here we wandered round one amazing building after the next. The whole city seems full of remnants of colonial times. India gate, the Taj hotel, The prince of wales museum, Victoria Terminus...the list goes on and time flew past. We watched some of the many cricket matches taking place on the oval maidens. They seem to play the stuff everywhere, from kids using tennis balls and tyres as stumps to proper official looking matches played in whites.
The city was much hotter on our second day here...the are was so humid it felt like breathing water and although the smog was overhead the sun was as fierce as its been on the whole trip. We visited the Dhobi Ghats (pictured), where most of Mumbai's washing is done. The men literally beat the clothes against a large stone over and over...clothes don't last too many washes over here but they certainly get cleaned thoroughly!
We took taxis to the hanging gardens and round Chowpatty beach and walked again for hours. The taxi's are battered old fiats. We reckon that about 80% of the cars here are Taxis...they are just everywhere. Its a lovely city and its the first place in India that feels like what we would call a city...Its definitely much more Westernised here than any other metropolis.
We set off next morning on a walk round the city. We are staying in an area called Colaba, the backpacker type place and from here we wandered round one amazing building after the next. The whole city seems full of remnants of colonial times. India gate, the Taj hotel, The prince of wales museum, Victoria Terminus...the list goes on and time flew past. We watched some of the many cricket matches taking place on the oval maidens. They seem to play the stuff everywhere, from kids using tennis balls and tyres as stumps to proper official looking matches played in whites.
The city was much hotter on our second day here...the are was so humid it felt like breathing water and although the smog was overhead the sun was as fierce as its been on the whole trip. We visited the Dhobi Ghats (pictured), where most of Mumbai's washing is done. The men literally beat the clothes against a large stone over and over...clothes don't last too many washes over here but they certainly get cleaned thoroughly!
We took taxis to the hanging gardens and round Chowpatty beach and walked again for hours. The taxi's are battered old fiats. We reckon that about 80% of the cars here are Taxis...they are just everywhere. Its a lovely city and its the first place in India that feels like what we would call a city...Its definitely much more Westernised here than any other metropolis.
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