Mumbai

October - December 2007

These are some photos of the street life in Mumbai. The trafficjams, the motobikers sneaking dangerously on the clogged roads between cars, buses, trucks, the inventive people who build a place to live in each availble place, the beggars...

 
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  Rushhour on the main highway on the way to Michaels job

 

   Keep Mumbai Clean! In the last three years the number of motor bikes doubled.

 
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  How long it take to clean the divider on the 10Km highway...

 

   with this broom? How long till the worker becomes a back hernia?

 
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  A place to live

 

   Begging on the road

 
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      The Gate of India in the evening

 

    
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These fireworks are not for Diana's birthday, but for one of the biggest Indian holy fest of Diwali. In one week there are million of firecrackers being let off, which makes the air poisonous for a month (more poisonous as the normal levels of poison anyway)
  Diana birthday at a Japanese-Indonesian-Thai restaurant

 

    
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On 12.11 the new train at which Michael works made its maiden voyage

  
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  Driving to Churchgate from where the train starts its first trip with commuters. Left is a typical local train   In Churchgate the train is greeted by hundreds of commuters. This is a normal crowd in a normal day at a railway platform

 

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Michael celebrates his birthday at home with colleagues on 23.11.

 
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  Kanheri caves in Sanjay Gandhi NP in the middle of Mumbai, a monastery build and used by Buddist monks between 2nd and 9th century.

 

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  Sanjay Gandhi NP is a nature park in Mumbai city limits, a place where you can escape the fumes and pollution but not the crowds

 

After lots of work, Michael took two days off and we travelled to Matheran, a hill station build by the British to escape the heat of the town. There are still some colonial bungallows, one of them is The Verandha in the Forest which we chose for our short holiday.

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