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Another Day in Mumbai

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January 27th 2020
Meeting in the lobby at nine a.m. for a bus tour of the city. Today’s blog will be a long one because of all the information that the tour guide provided to us over the next five hours. Mumbai (or Bombay as some know it) is built over 7 islands. When the British took over Mumbai from the Portuguese they built causeways between all the islands. It is situated on the coastline of the Arabian Sea A ... read more

Asia » India

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more