India Gate - Mumbai

Bollywood & the Beaches of Goa

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February 15th 2008
We arrived in Mumbai mid afternoon and was hit straight away by the heat (OK it wasn't that hot, but we had just spent the last 2-3 weeks in almost freezing conditions). The other big notice was how big Mumbai actually is, it felt like that we had been travelling into the city for hours and when we did finally stop we then found that we had another 30 min cab ride to reach where we had planned to ... 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