Welcome to Mumbai
Mumbai will either be one of the most fascinating places you'll ever visit or a city you can’t get out of fast enough. It’s truly an assault on the senses in every way, shape, and form. It is a cacophony of sounds, smells, sights, and people. Not only is there next to no space, you’re either sharing the space you do have with a beggar, a cow, or a rickshaw driver who seems desperate to drive into head-on traffic.
In Mumbai, the poorest slums in the world coexist with some of the wealthiest real estate in the world. Old-fashioned bazaars, trendy boutiques, English colonialism, Indian pride, chaos, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, are all thrown together and blended on high. Mumbai is the financial, fashion, and film capital of India. It’s like New York, L.A., Tokyo, Las Vegas, and London mashed together and moving forward at 200 miles per hour. Its dizzying intensity can make a traveler weak in the knees or exhilarated to no end. Get ready for the roller coaster ride that is Mumbai.
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