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Day 3 in Mumbai

Anthony - Tue 26 February 08.00
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And what a nice day it is! A mild breeze has take care of the pollution, and the temperature is pleasant!

On the road, a guy wanted to sell some god's blessing to nikesh for a mere 50,000 rupees (about GBP600-700)! To me he kept going on about baksheesh, the donation that shantaram keeps talking about!

Sitting in a restaurant/cafe called the Naval Military Restaurant, when some random women with a child came to sit with us. We didn't really mind her, and the child was cute and laughing, but then she started to beg again, and a waiter asked her to leave... Begging is not good...

On the taxi ride to haji ali mosque, we talked about traffic and why its so messy here, and nikesh raised a good point, saying that thankfully there isn't as much regulation here because it allowed for much better traffic flow. And as I write this, in our taxi, I swear we're driving on the wrong side of the road, as we just claimed another lane ob the other side!
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Haji Ali Mosque

Anthony - Tue 26 February 09.00
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On our third day to mumbai, we visited the famous Haji Ali Mosque, which is kind of built into the ocean. There is a narrow pathway that connects the island the Mosque is built on to the main land of Mumbai, it's about 500m long, and during high tide, you'll see the thousands of people wading through knee high water to the mosque and back.

It's an impressive scene, and also an interesting area of mumbai. Since we didn't want to go into the Mosque directly, not sure whether it would have been ok to do that, so we chose to settle at a nearby place by the water with good view onto the mosque.

Over there, we were soon surrounded by several dozens of children, which were very interested in out high tech gadgets, mainly our cameras. Without hesitation, i gave my camera away to one of the guys, who then started playing with it. Nick was a bit more concerned initially, judging by the expression on his face, but was soon convinced for it to be safe. Amazingly, these children, which don't exactly live in air-conditioned appartments, don't steal - why should they!

So they actually took pictures of each other, and were interested to see some of the photos we took. Afterwards, we tried to print off some copies to give to them, but htere was no photo shop nearby. Maybe next time we go to mumbai!
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