Incredible India! - Mumbai मुंबई
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I was in India few weeks ago... Although I had never been attracted by India, I must say that since my visit, it has become one of my future priorities when selecting a destination. What an incredible country! Hindis are adorable, very friendly and extremely polite and respectful. Their food is really tasty and... SPICY! The biggest problem is that it's such a big country that you have to select your destination carefully before travelling there. It's impossible to visit the country in just one shot.
Again, I went with my loyal trip companion Inge and we first visited the country's capital Mumbai and then we went south to Goa (TRANCE!).
Mumbai is a huuuuuuge city, crazy, chaotic, somehow dirty and very very busy! There are a bunch of very nice shops with clothes made by young designers. Nice shopping, right Inge!? :-P
Here are some pics of the streets and buildings:
This is the famous Gateway to India. It was built to commemorate the visit of King George V and Queen Mary to Bombay. The foundation stone was laid on March 31, 1911 by the Governor of Bombay Sir George Sydenham Clarke. The foundations were completed in 1920, and construction was finished in 1924. The Gateway was opened on December 4, 1924 by the Viceroy, the Earl of Reading.
The last British troops to leave India, the First Battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry, passed through the gate in a ceremony on February 28, 1948.
The adjacent Taj Mahal Palace and Taj Intercontinental hotels are a major landmark, and a popular tourist destination.
This is a spectacular train station: VICTORIA TERMINUS. Although now it is named Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus, people still know it as V.T.
This was Māhatma Gandhi's house. Look at his room! Where is the Macintosh? The plasma TV? The Hi-Fi sound system? Did he have an iPod? Amazing humility...
This is the Dhobi Ghat (Washing Place). A unique feature of Mumbai, the dhobi is a traditional laundryman, who will collect your dirty linen, wash it, and return it neatly pressed to your doorstep. All for a pittance. The "laundries" are called "ghats": row upon row of concrete wash pens, each fitted with its own flogging stone. The clothes are soaked in sudsy water, thrashed on the flogging stones, then tossed into huge vats of boiling starch and hung out to dry. Next they are ironed and piled into neat bundles. The most famous of these Dhobi Ghats is at Saat Rasta near Mahalaxmi Station where almost two hundred dhobis and their families work together in what has always been a hereditary occupation.
I was in India few weeks ago... Although I had never been attracted by India, I must say that since my visit, it has become one of my future priorities when selecting a destination. What an incredible country! Hindis are adorable, very friendly and extremely polite and respectful. Their food is really tasty and... SPICY! The biggest problem is that it's such a big country that you have to select your destination carefully before travelling there. It's impossible to visit the country in just one shot.
Again, I went with my loyal trip companion Inge and we first visited the country's capital Mumbai and then we went south to Goa (TRANCE!).
Mumbai is a huuuuuuge city, crazy, chaotic, somehow dirty and very very busy! There are a bunch of very nice shops with clothes made by young designers. Nice shopping, right Inge!? :-P
Here are some pics of the streets and buildings:
This is the famous Gateway to India. It was built to commemorate the visit of King George V and Queen Mary to Bombay. The foundation stone was laid on March 31, 1911 by the Governor of Bombay Sir George Sydenham Clarke. The foundations were completed in 1920, and construction was finished in 1924. The Gateway was opened on December 4, 1924 by the Viceroy, the Earl of Reading.
The last British troops to leave India, the First Battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry, passed through the gate in a ceremony on February 28, 1948.
The adjacent Taj Mahal Palace and Taj Intercontinental hotels are a major landmark, and a popular tourist destination.
This is a spectacular train station: VICTORIA TERMINUS. Although now it is named Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus, people still know it as V.T.
This was Māhatma Gandhi's house. Look at his room! Where is the Macintosh? The plasma TV? The Hi-Fi sound system? Did he have an iPod? Amazing humility...
This is the Dhobi Ghat (Washing Place). A unique feature of Mumbai, the dhobi is a traditional laundryman, who will collect your dirty linen, wash it, and return it neatly pressed to your doorstep. All for a pittance. The "laundries" are called "ghats": row upon row of concrete wash pens, each fitted with its own flogging stone. The clothes are soaked in sudsy water, thrashed on the flogging stones, then tossed into huge vats of boiling starch and hung out to dry. Next they are ironed and piled into neat bundles. The most famous of these Dhobi Ghats is at Saat Rasta near Mahalaxmi Station where almost two hundred dhobis and their families work together in what has always been a hereditary occupation.
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