Our First Day in Mumbai, India

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Our 9 hour BA flight passed quite pleasantly with two decent kosher meals and unlimited films. We landed at 12.20am and were at our hotel around 2am, passing the new city buildings, the shanty towns and finally those sleeping on the streets.

At breakfast we came across the vegetarian green dot system which helped decide what we could eat. Then we met our guide Chitra who turns out to be a most wonderful, energetic and informative young lady who has made it a mission in her life, for reasons she doesn't understand, to specialise in jewish India tours.

So today, after only 4 hours sleep and 5:30 hours lost in time zones, we were introduced to the diverse, busy, exciting city of Mumbai. We saw 4 shuls, saw how workers get their homemade lunches delivered to their offices by an incredibly clever hand delivery system, get their laundry washed, visited gardens, Gandhi's house and toured the city... V exhausting .

Looking forward to a decent sleep and to a boat trip tomorrow.

Diane and Paul

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Comments

[Aubrey]

sounds good
You got off to a good start. Hope you've caught up with your sleep.

[Tony]

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I've never read a blog before last week now reading yours and Sam's! I look forward to your Indian adventures