On the picture shown :- The old British quarter is rising from the ashes of its Raj heritage and reinventing itself as a happening part of the city, packed with bars, restaurants, shops and loads of stuff to see and do #MyCity#incredibleIndia#mumbai#MumbaiBlogger#SaudiBlogger#BahrainBlogger#BahrainBloggers#Bombaylife#Mumbai#sealink#India#sealinkMumbai#sealinkBandra#mumbaiDiaries#mumbaiLife#canon#indiansinbahrain#mumbaidairies#ExploreMumbai#ExploreIndia
Hi @MoniDi Mumbai is a city of dreams and shocking realities – the home of Bollywood bling and bumper-to-bumper traffic. Given as part of a dowry to King Charles II in 1662, it became a darling of the Empire. At its southernmost tip lies Colaba, the old British quarter. Long Mumbai’s unofficial tourist headquarters, Colaba is now experiencing a grand renaissance, Indian-style. Vibrant and colourful, Colaba is compact, walkable and packed with stuff to see and do. Every week new cafes, restaurants, boutiques and bars open. It’s good to get out and explore early as the city wakes. You’ll see masala tea being brewed on a thousand pavement stalls; great urns of fresh milk delivered from the countryside on carts, the tops plugged with straw; children hurrying to school with wetted-down hair. And, best of all, the frantic chirping of the birds in the banyan trees, syrupy yellow light filtering through the branches. Head to the Sassoon Docks, as the morning catch comes in around 7am. It’s a hive of commotion as fishermen rush to get their haul to the market along the quay – there’s a basket of sardines or pomfret on every head – elbows jabbing, mouths yelling, bare feet scurrying through fish guts and slime. There’s fairy-tale solitude nearby, at the so-called Afghan Church. A vast stone statement of long-extinct colonial might, it’s dedicated to the British soldiers who fell in the 19th-century Afghan campaigns. Crumbling into dust, the battle standards still hang in glass display cases and the eagle-eyed will spot the notches on the plain wooden pews. Shopping in Colaba caters to every budget, style and taste. At one end of the scale there are fashionable boutiques, which have sprouted up in the century-old buildings of the Raj
Thank you for the detailed additional information. It is very interesting for me to read and learn about the things you can do in Mumbai. You are saying that every week there is a new place that just opened, do you have a favourite one already? Can you recommend something that is worth visiting?
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