Mumbai (Bombay) and Maharashtra Features

Mumbai (Bombay) and Maharashtra Features

• Top Reasons to Go to Mumbai (Bombay) and Maharashtra
  

  All of India in One City: Mumbai is both modern and old-fashioned, rich and poor, beautiful and ugly—all of India concentrated in one metropolis... read more

• Mumbai's Greatest Seafood Hits
  

  Clams, squid, prawns, lobsters, crabs, and fish, rubbed with a spicy red masala or spiked with a green masala or simmered in a thick fragrant... read more

• Bombay's Lunchmen
  

  If you stand at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (Victoria Terminus) or at south Mumbai's second station, Churchgate, close to the start of Marine... read more

• The Deccan Odyssey
  

  Following the success of Rajasthan's luxury Palace on Wheels train, India introduced a Maharashtra counterpart, the Deccan Odyssey. Traveling... read more

• Dawn at the Docks in Colaba
  

  Mumbai's budget-tourist district is often packed with vacationing Arabs in the rainy season and Western backpackers in the winter. Cheap boardinghouses... read more

• Indian Jews & Their Synagogues
  

  Jews were once a prominent stream in Mumbai's population. There might have been three strains of Indian Jews—Maharashtrian (Bene Israel)... read more

• Bombay Ice Cream
  

  Give the predictable Kwality Walls and Baskin Robbins a miss and sample some traditional ice cream, made daily with fresh fruit. Delicious flavors... read more

• The Great Irani Café
  

  Mumbai has a special breed of teahouse that's on the way out. Called "Irani joints" in local parlance, these corner shops were begun by the first... read more

• Custom Tailors & Fine Fabrics
  

  Mumbai's bazaars boom with some of the richest and widest varieties of cloth. The Mangaldas Cloth Market has enough bales of material to carpet... read more

• Street Food Favorites
  

  Here's a list of some of Mumbai's street-food classics:... read more

• Two Top Mumbai Getaways
  

  Four hours (about 134 km) out of Mumbai is one of the prettier beaches along the Maharashtra coast—Kashid, a shining strip of sand and... read more

• Song & Dance, Bollywood Style
  

  Nicknamed after its Hollywood exemplar, Bollywood, the famously spirited and wildly popular Indian film industry headquartered in Bombay, is... read more

• After-Hours Traditional Dance Bars
  

  Mumbai once had a category of rough-and-ready nightspots called dance bars. These were licensed bars that offered "cultural programs" and were... read more