Mumbai

We had a day and a half in Mumbai - it started out as an easy way to get a direct flight to Cairo, but in the end Naseem's Uncle joined us for the day and showed us around:

This is the Taj Hotel - they're still working on restoring it after the bombings in 2008, but one wing is now open:



We were fascinated by this photo guy: he took a picture of the three of us, popped out his memory card, opened his bag to reveal a small epson printer and printed our pic on the spot - crazy!



And by request for Naseem's dad - the park and hanging garden:


Mumbai was definitely a city of extremes for us and the poverty was much more apparently here than in Delhi (though in Delhi they've been knocking down the slums/tent housing in anticipation of the games later this year). Throughout the trip, there were definitely children asking for money, some pretty persistent, but even when you did give, it was never enough. In Mumbai, it was the kids begging that got to me, but the ones that weren't. There was this one main street we drove through a lot with makeshift 'housing' and the kids played in front of their home - which was the street...little kids playing and crawling bare kneed on the street...was hard to watch at times....