Mumbai VT Station

Mumbai to Delhi

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May 12th 2007
The overnight train journey was fairly uneventful on the way to Mumbai. Once we hit the Mumbai area we passed a lot of slums, shacks held together by rocks on the roof and people using the railway track for both a toilet and a scavanging area. Mumbai is India's most populated city and renowned for it's massive slums. Upon arrival we got fleeced by a taxi driver who filled us with some nonsense abo ... 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