We arrived late morning yesterday into Mumbai on a hot, sunny, smoggy day. At the airport, there were crowds of people standing outside. We found a taxi which barely started and we quickly sped of towards West Bandra. The roads here are chaos - filled with cabs, busses, motorcycles, tons of little auto rickshaws and pedestrians. There are no lanes - at least not lanes anyone pays attention to and everyone manuveurs in and out using their horns to let people know they're coming - I'm not really sure how this system works, but I guess it does.... A bit jetlagged, we checked into our "deluxe room" at the hotel Lucky - apparently deluxe means that it is above the street noise -the constant horns that really never stop - NYC is a quiet peaceful village
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