Mumbai

Taj Hotel and the Gateway of India from Mumbai Harbor

The happy couple and the Taj Hotel

Mumbai was the second leg of our journey since Scott had work there. We stayed at a clean and comfortable  guesthouse where they generously gave us free meals at the canteen since cash was so hard to come by. (Maybe they would have anyway, but it was a life-saver.) We rode a ferry out and got a good look at the city from the harbor. Mumbai is home to Bollywood. It's also the financial center of India, so it's sort of like LA and NYC combined. I loved the skyscrapers and Victorian architecture. We toured the Sassoon Fishing Docks where we saw women sitting, shelling great piles of shrimp on the side of the road. Trishna's restaurant (they take VISA) cooked up some of that "frash feesh" for our lunch and the maitre d' brought out a prawn as big as his forearm. We walked through the 150 year old Dhobi ghat, the worlds biggest outdoor "human washing machine," where men  wash, dry and iron tons of laundry for hotels and hospitals. We renewed our admiration for Ghandi at his former house in Mumbai and found the only working ATM of our travels. I like Mumbai.

Google images: Dhobi Ghat