Mumbai (Bombay)

We arrived in Mumbai (named changed from Bombay in 1996, so many people still call it Bombay) yesterday morning.  Our hotel is awful, so we decided to only stay two days here. The hotel rooms are twice or three times as expensive in this city as the rest of India, so what our budget allows isn't much here!

We are staying in the Fort district, which has all the beautiful Victorian buildings, large leafy walks, and lots and lots of shops.

This is the Victoria Terminal Train Station

Example of some of the architecture

The leafy sidewalks

Last night we wanted to see a Bollywood film while actually in Bollywood, but the Hindi films aren't shown with English subtitles.  So we settled for an American film - "The Green Hornet."  We really enjoyed the film and the movie going experience was quite fun. There are assigned seats when you buy your ticket and turns out the preferred seats are the furthest back.  There is also always an intermission, even if the movie is only 1.5 hrs. I also had to check my camera battery at the door so that I couldn't take any pics or video of the movie. It was a great experience, and when we got out of the theater around 11pm last night, we found out that a city of 16 million people can feel like a ghost town at that hour!

I will post more photos after today.  We are off to see Elephanta Island, 9km off of the shore from the Gateway to India.