Mumbai Nutz and Bolts

City Name: Mumbai
Where is it located?: Mumbai is in western India on Arabian Sea. It's an island connected with bridge to the mainland.
Why do people go there: Mumbai is the industrial city of India, exporting more goods than anywhere else in the country. With an English feel, it's also home to Bollywood, India's and the world's biggest market of cinema.
How do travelers get there?: Mumbai has more domestic flights than anywhere else in India. There is a great train network to get you elsewhere in the country.
Currency: Rupee
City Code: 22
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Population: 18000000
Languages: Hindi & English, there are 14 other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Sanskrit; Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout n
Neighborhoods: Breach Candy, Navy Nagar, Kamathpura
Attractions: Crawford Market, Colaba, Marine Drive
Accommodations: New Delhi Hostels
Tourist Office: India Tourism Office
Off-the-beaten-path: Elephanta Island
Health Issues: Cholera, Dengue Fever, Hepatitis, Malaria, Meningococcal Meningitis, Typhoid
When to go: India is vast - with various mountain ranges, ecosystems and climate factors that make it impossible to say the best time to visit India. In one part of the country it will be cool, and in the other part it will be humid, hot and raining. Generally speaki
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City Specific Events: Elephanta Festival: February. Ganesh Chaturthi: August/September
How to get around?: Local transport runs the gamet of the experience. It all depends upon how much money you want to pay an how much of the experience you want controlled, although it seems like nothing works in Inida. You can have everything from a horse-drawn carriage to v
Good to know: There are good cheap domestic flights from Mumbai to elsewhere in India.




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