Our Indian Adventure - Day 9

A fairwell to Bombay. From everything that people told me about it before my visit, I was sure I would not like it. Not really sure why though, it is dirty, smelly, busy and chaotic.

Most of my photos aren't of very good quality as they were taken while riding in the car through the monsoon rain.

Marine Drive and Chowpatty Beach, the high end area of town. Hence very clean.

Blue tarp everywhere. A good way to cope with the monsoon rain, it seems.

Even these guys living at the top of a fancier apartment building  decided to decorate their balcony with a blue sheet of plastic. 

 

But nowhere will you see more blue than in the slums of Bombay. This one is right next to the runway of the domestic airport.

And then there's the billion dollar "mansion" which they say the owner is not even living in as an astrologer forecasted great room for the family if the stayed there. Not sure if that story is true though...

That's Bombay in a nutshell; a stark contrast between high and low.