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Wholesale Flowers

One of our first stops (after checking in at the hotel and leaving some clothes to be washed) was the wholesale flower market. Flowers are brought in from surrounding states and sold to vendors all day. Most will be used to make garlands. There are also some grasses and leaves to be sold.
On to Mumbai (Bombay)

February 11th 2008
Sunday Flew from Kolkata to Mumbai and were met at the airport by our friend's sister (Isa) and our tour guide/driver for the few days we're here--Lenny. Very informative man, good driver. Of course, this was Sunday--we'll see how much worse traffic is on a weekeday. Right now, we're going to concentrate on getting pics with captions on the site; might update text later. Our timeshare u ... read more
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