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| That drive leaving the International airport really did stun me. Never saw such a trashy, depressing mess, that's true, but we did find the good stuff. While a lot of shops do look like this in Mumbai (much worse at airport!), we just needed to get the heck out of that area. The Ibis hotel hooked us up with a driver (with air conditioning thank gosh!!) for 8 hours and that day's sight-seeing changed everything and our mood was MUCH improved! Modern malls (to buy camera memory chips) and a day at the magnificent Prince of Wales museum (pic to come later - the upload of pics is slooooow in this internet cafe.) |
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| Prince of Wales Museum - wonderful |
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| The driver got on the freeway...seriously crazy driving with constant honking (to let each other know where they are!) and the road lines are "just a suggestion." We did pass the slum area and it was rough, but we continued past that to the modern area of town. After stopping at Thomas Cook for currency exchange and some travel agency reservations, we saw the sites. This is the "Gateway to India." Plenty of nice friendly folks want to sell you pictures. Beyond this landmark is the Arabian Ocean. Cool. |
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| This is the Taj Mahal hotel. It became quite famous about 2 years ago due to a bomb attack - and indeed the security everywhere has been intense. Double bag-checking and X-ray scanning. Even at our Ibis hotel! The taxis are checked with under-carriage mirrors for bombs. Stuff like that. Egypt was that way, too. Anyway, the Taj is right next to the Gateway to India. We plan to return and have lunch there on our last day in India. Very ritzy. |
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