Taj Mahal Palace Hotel and The Gateway to India

Mumbai

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December 22nd 2009
Today we flew to Mumbai. Mumbai is a really interesting place - very cosmopolitan in parts and very poor in others. Shanty town settlements were erected next to modern designed buildings and people lived on every inch of footpath that was available outside the centre of the city. Compared to Nepal and Varanasi, Mumbai seemed very modern and the centre of the city was relatively clean and ordered ( ... 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