Out on the town

Christmas in Bombay

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December 28th 2005
We arrived in Mumbai (aka Bombay) on the 23rd December and have stayed over the Christmas period. The city has a small but vocal (and rich) Christian community and so there were quite a few Santas and reindeer to be seen. Even the Hindu population regard Christmas as a special day, an excuse to eat cakes and do some shopping- not that they need much encouragement to do either. Now that our tour ... 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