On the way here, as expected from Indian buses now.. It broke down. So it took a little longer than expected to arrive. Once we checked in, we headed straight to McDonald’s as we were starving. It’s not the same in India though (no beef… no big macs… Lots of veggie burgers). We then followed an architectural walk from the Lonely Planet book we brought with us which we skipped through most of it as its not really our thing, but it included seeing; The Gateway of India, The Taj hotel, The clock tower, Marine drive and then we got tired so we stopped and watched some college teams playing cricket. Later in the evening we were tired so didn’t do much.
The next day we got the train to see ‘the great wall of Mumbai’ which was supposed to be a street art project on a wall where professionals had started doing some art and now everyone gets involved. We’re not sure we walked far enough up, but from what we saw it was very faded and flakey bits of paint were coming off the wall. So as you can imagine, we weren’t impressed by this. We got back on the train to see Dhobi Ghat which is the largest outdoor laundrette. Hundreds of workers handwashing thousands of pieces of clothing/towels ect. Apparently this is where all of the hotels send their washing. Afterwards we got back on the train to see the beachwhich was full of pigeons, stopped off at a cafe for a while and then walked up to the hanging gardens. We got the bus back and went out for a couple of beers in the evening which was strange as we got hustled into the back, into a room with no lights on where there were lots of locals drinking (as if it’s normal to sit in the dark).
The next day we went to Crawford market which was one big indoor market surrounded by streets of other market stalls. It was so crowded, so noisy and really smelly around here! We got an uber back to the area we were staying and went for a much needed tea/coffee break. In the evening we went out for food and then to a local bar which we had a couple of beers in the night before, but this time we went upstairs where there were some lights on and music, both Indian and English which was fun!
On our final day we took a boat to Elephanta Island to see some caves which were dedicated to the Hindu god, Shiva and are around 2000 years old. The first cave we went to was cool as it had huge carvings but the others were not as interesting. We spent a couple of hours walking around and there were lots of monkeys around here, which we’re still not bored of seeing! Later on, we had a bus to Udaipur…
Kerry and Jonho's Travels 