Mumbai features in the list of hot Asian destinations for 2008 in the Bluelist of Lonely Planet. It is a recommended as an intriguing place for spending holiday in 2008. Mumbai is the financial capital of India and is the most happening metropolis with a busy and bustling life. Its economic strength has grown by leaps and bounds and the upper middle class has increased to a great extent giving rise to swanky malls, market places and improved lifestyles. Mumbai was earlier called Bombay and it is Maharashtra state’s capital city. It is India’s largest city and also one of the biggest port cities.
Mumbai is a major Indian city with the biggest slum population. It is world famous as the most diverse and cosmopolitan city of India. The most notable attraction of Mumbai is Bollywood, the nerve centre of Hindi film industry. Mumbai is a city that was built as a result of successive migratory waves and it has acquired its character from the communities that settled the earliest. Mumbai can be roughly divided into districts like South Mumbai, South Central Mumbai, North Central Mumbai, Western Suburbs, Central Suburbs, Harbour Suburbs and Northwest Mumbai.
As it is a highly modernized city, Mumbai has extremely well developed tourism infrastructure with hotels of all types, excellent transport and other facilities. You can reach Mumbai easily by a plane at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport. Most of the international tourists start their journey in India by arriving at Mumbai. Mumbai can be reached by way of cruises and there are many travel companies that operate cruises from Dubai, Singapore and Malaysia. Mumbai has excellent train connections from all the major places in India. You can reach by road as there are many highways crisscrossing through Mumbai.
The local transport is also convenient, cheap and affordable. It is available in the form of buses, taxis, autorickshaws, ferries and hired chauffeur driven cars. The cars driven by chauffeurs are provided by the hotels and travel agents and they might be expensive as compared to taxis. The tourists have a lot of sight seeing opportunities in Mumbai and most of the tourist attractions are mainly located in the area of South Mumbai. There are many magnificent colonial buildings built by the British and you will be able to see architectural styles of Gothic, Neo-classical and Indo-Saracenic types.
The buildings worth a watch are the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Polica Headquarters, Fort St. George and Gateway of India. You will see many renowned art galleries and museums in South Mumbai and the most popular ones are National Gallery of Modern Art and Prince of Wales Museum. The tourists must make a trip to the Juhu Beach to see the actual lifestyle of the city. The famed zoos, parks and gardens in Mumbai include the Borivali National Park, Veermata Jijabai Udyan, the zoo, Hanging Gardens, Five gardens and Mumbai Port Trust Garden. The other tourist attractions are the various religious places like the Haji Ali Shrine, Mount Mary Church, Siddhi Vinayak Temple, ahakali Temple, Jogeshwari Temple, synagogues and Parsi Agyaris. You must see the Elephanta Caves and other ancient historical sites like the temples that are cut from within rocks.
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