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 1 Mumbai Arriving from the airport, seeing skyscrapers and slums |
 2 Mumbai Nice-looking apartments seen from our hotel window |
 3 Mumbai The Taj Palace Hotel |
 4 Mumbai Dhunraj Mahal, an art-deco building |
 5 Mumbai Regal Circle and old Sailor's Home |
 6 Mumbai Elphinstone College |
 7 Mumbai Cricket players in the Oval Maiden |
 8 Mumbai Rolling tires in the Oval Maiden (I never could do that...) |
 9 Mumbai Yummy-looking fresh fruits |
 10 Mumbai That's one way of doing it. |
 11 Mumbai View of Mumbai's Back Bay from the Kamala Nehru Park on Malabar Hill |
 12 Mumbai Chowpatty Beach |
 13 Mumbai Kids playing in a giant shoe in Kamala Nehru Park |
 14 Mumbai Perhaps the world's largest street book seller |
 15 Mumbai Crawford Market |
 16 Mumbai Spices for sale in Crawford Market (We bought some.) |
 17 Mumbai Fruit stand in Crawford Market |
 18 Mumbai Crawford Market |
 19 Mumbai The Banganga Tank, at the base of Malabar Hill, is fed by a spring said to have been created when one of Rama's arrows fell to earth |
 20 Mumbai Tourist photographing a Nandi |
 21 Mumbai Roofs of a low-rent area on the coast near the Banganga Tank |
 22 Mumbai Some of the low-renters' neigbors pay more in rent. |
 23 Mumbai Entrance to the area |
 24 Mumbai Houses in the low-rent area seem surprisingly clean |
 25 Mumbai In the area, people actually seem to not be all that badly off. |
 26 Mumbai High rises north of the Banganga Tank |
 27 Mumbai Kidz 'n the tank |
 28 Mumbai Mumbai apartment building |
 29 Mumbai Mahalaxmi Dhobi Ghat -- washing clothes |
 30 Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, the former Victoria Terminus |
 31 Mumbai In the station, the track where "Jai ho" was filmed... |
 32 Mumbai Hall inside Victoria Terminus |
 33 Mumbai In the station, relief of a mongoose killing a serpent |
 34 Mumbai Taj Palace and Gate of India seen from boat for Elephant Island |
 35 Mumbai Mumbai seen from the boat |
 36 Mumbai Swedish tourist on the boat |
 37 Mumbai Elephanta Island, where excavated cave-temples harbor magnificent fourteen-hundred-year old sculptures |
 38 Mumbai Women selling water on Elephanta Island |
 39 Mumbai Tourist being carried up the island path in a chair |
 40 Mumbai East portico of the main cave on Elephanta Island |
 41 Mumbai Columns in the main cave; remember, the columns were not built, the cave was carved out |
 42 Mumbai Shiva Ardhaneshvara, in his androgynous form |
 43 Mumbai The magnificent Sadashiva, three-headed Shiva, dominates the main cave |
 44 Mumbai Main cave and tourists of various origins |
 45 Mumbai West gate to main cave |
 46 Mumbai North entrance |
 47 Mumbai Monkey along the path |
 48 Mumbai Boats waiting to take tourists back to Mumbai |
 49 Mumbai On the boat |
 50 Mumbai Workmen in front of our hotel -- note the footwear |
