Mumbai Guide to Mumbai Tourist Information
An extensive Guide to Mumbai with unbiased tourist information, travel reviews, helpful hints and tips! Here at Get-Packing.com we give a detailed summary of tourist information in Mumbai on key facts, maps, pictures, weather information, attractions, events, shopping, restaurants, travel and much more.
Fast becoming the most populous city in the world, Mumbai -formerly known as Bombay offers the traveller a glorious mix of cultures and people. It's a place still firmly rooted in a mystical and rich past, yet also one that embraces the future, and drags itself ever upwards claiming identity with Singapore as one of the great trading places in the east.
Already home to almost 20 million people, with their cars, needs, and space, Mumbai is frighteningly overcrowded and polluted, vast swathes of the city are trapped in generational poverty, and lack the basic needs for modern life such as water and clean air, and yet through all this, Mumbai still buzzes like nowhere else on earth. It's a unique place, which repels as many people as it attracts, and is often a place that travellers to India seek to avoid, but those who preservers with the city will find it a beguiling place, that is welcoming to visitors and tourists, and is a joy to explore and shop in, as well as having probably the best nightlife in the subcontinent and some of the best restaurants.
The chances are, that if you're going to India, then you will at some point be passing through Mumbai, even if its only the airport that you see. Its worth stopping for a few days in order to experience Mumbai, and soak up the atmosphere in the bars and along Chowpatty beach or Marine Drive in the evening, because for all the sitting on top of a mountain and finding yourself that you can do in India, this is the real face of the country, grubby and crumbling maybe, but at the same time, exciting, and unbelievably friendly.
Facts for the Traveller:
Name: Republic of India
Capital: New Delhi
Area: 3.28 million Sq KM
Population: 1.04 Billion
Language: Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Bengali, Kashmiri, English
Flight Time: 12 Hours from London
Currency: Indian Rupee
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