Mumbai

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In Mumbai I am working at TIFR, Mumbai is on a peninsula (a chain of islands with reclaimed land) and TIFR is right at the end on the western side, in the midst of the Navy Nagar area (home to the Navy) and near to Colaba, the main sort of travelers area.

I can't upload pictures to my computer here, and I'm also not allowed to take photos around the area (because of the Navy) so there are only a few I stole from the web here. Mumbai is much more modern and clean than where we were in the North, there are no cows wandering around the streets and it has many large impressive buildings from the time of the British. There actually isn't much to here apart from take in the architecture and visit the varied restaurants.

The one main tourist atraction is to take a boat from the gateway of India (see picture to Elephanta Island (1 hour). You get to see the harbour and on the island there are old cave temples with sculptures. Unfortunately the statues aren't well preserved but it was still a good trip. We did this the first weekend, and at a later weekend we ended up going to the cinema due to a lack of tourist sites.

While we were here Sarah got some work as a professional white person: appearing in adverts and a film as an extra and doing promotional work. Haven't seen the adverts on tv yet though.