Chowpatty beach

Back in Mumbai...

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March 18th 2006
Ordeal of the train over, we made it out of Dadar station thanks to a very persistant but seemingly pretty reasonable tout. To be honest, I didn't really care about whether we paid over the odds for a cab - I just wanted to be back at the hotel. Got to his car, though, and I started to have second thoughts. The car was more rust than metal, with a boot that didn't shut and upholstery that had defi ... 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