Me on Elephanta Island

Circuit of India: Day 2 in Mumbai

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October 10th 2007
This morning I took a ferry boat to Elephanta Island. It was a hassle getting a ticket, but I actually wore one guy down and he told me to go away! He kept changing the prices and times and boat types and it was getting on my nerves since there are set prices. I easily found another ticket seller and got on the 9:00am boat (which left at 9:09am which is pretty impressive for here). When I got ... read more

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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