Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay) is India’s most bustling metropolis with over fifteen million inhabitants. It is situated on the western coast of India and was originally a cluster of seven islands around which the modern city has grown. Mumbai has more bazaars, or shops, than the imagination could conjure. With prices and products to suit all price and age ranges, a visit to Mumbai is incomplete without a walk through one of Mumbai’s many bazaars.
Mumbai is the bubblegum glamour of Bollywood cinema—shopping malls full of designer labels, cricket on the Oval Maidan, promenading families eating bhelpuri on the beach at Chowpatty, red double-decker buses queuing in one of India’s most exciting cities. This pungent drama is played out against a Victorian townscape more reminiscent of a prosperous 19th-century English industrial city than anything you'd expect to find on the edge of the Arabian Sea. It's a city with vibrant streetlife, India's best nightlife, and a wealth of bazaars. |