Kiron and Robins Apartment Block, MumbaiWe began our travels in Mumbai (Bombay), but obviously before we could land in India we had some more paper work to fill, in with ample spaces left on the paper so that it can be stamped by several important people in several different locations before we reach the departure lounge. We did however get to have quite a sheltered experience of Mumbai (which, believe me, we were very happy to have). We were staying with Christine’s aunt and uncle, Robin and Kiron.
MumbaiMumbai is like no place I have seen before, the divide between rich and poor is unbelievable. And what seems even more unbelievable is that they live right on top of each other, in a city that often seems to be in complete decay. Yet rising out of this are huge new skyscrapers and shiny new shopping malls, but which incredibly are just in between all the plastic and rusty old corrugated shacks of the poor.
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