Mumbai: Day 1
Today was a very interesting day- from walking around a residential area, to crashing a Hare Krishna wedding and experiencing a bit of the outdoor markets. We woke up really early after our long days of travelling and had a really good breakfast at the hotel and then went on our journey in our magical bus with a our travel guide. Our first stop was in a residential area with some kiosks right by what I think was the Arabian Sea or Indian Ocean. There we saw some men doing laundry by hand as their job, an area of water in which washing and I think some sort of rituals take place and some playgrounds for the kids of the neighborhood.
We drove around for a bit while our tour guide explained that some city workers have their home cooked meals delivered to their offices by a system of workers that pick up lunches from their houses in the morning and by 12:30 pm their lunch is in their office. This allows their wives to cook their meals as the men travel to work and allows them to save money by not having to eat lunch out. Also this costs like 8 rupees per month which is not even 15 cents!
Our next stop was the Gandhi Museum which was very interesting and beautiful! There was one floor that had maintained his room almost identical to the way he used it and another with the story of his life drawn our with miniature figurines in separate wooden boxes. The stop after that was the Hare Krishna temple, in which there was a wedding and we were a part of! The building was beautiful with a lot of wooden arches and the music was even better. A woman who was part of the ceremony even asked me to take a picture with the bride and groom for their official camera, so I think I'm going to be a part of their photo album! All of the people there were very welcoming of our group and some members even came up to us to explain the significance of the ceremony. We then had lunch next to the temple and went back to the hotel to learn about some Indian culture and a sort of orientation of the classes we will be taking this month.
Before dinner we walked around the area of our hotel and experienced the overwhelming open market! The patterns and cool clothing looked amazing, but I couldn't decide what to buy in very little time we had so I'll definitely be going back there soon. :)
Today was a very interesting day- from walking around a residential area, to crashing a Hare Krishna wedding and experiencing a bit of the outdoor markets. We woke up really early after our long days of travelling and had a really good breakfast at the hotel and then went on our journey in our magical bus with a our travel guide. Our first stop was in a residential area with some kiosks right by what I think was the Arabian Sea or Indian Ocean. There we saw some men doing laundry by hand as their job, an area of water in which washing and I think some sort of rituals take place and some playgrounds for the kids of the neighborhood.
We drove around for a bit while our tour guide explained that some city workers have their home cooked meals delivered to their offices by a system of workers that pick up lunches from their houses in the morning and by 12:30 pm their lunch is in their office. This allows their wives to cook their meals as the men travel to work and allows them to save money by not having to eat lunch out. Also this costs like 8 rupees per month which is not even 15 cents!
Our next stop was the Gandhi Museum which was very interesting and beautiful! There was one floor that had maintained his room almost identical to the way he used it and another with the story of his life drawn our with miniature figurines in separate wooden boxes. The stop after that was the Hare Krishna temple, in which there was a wedding and we were a part of! The building was beautiful with a lot of wooden arches and the music was even better. A woman who was part of the ceremony even asked me to take a picture with the bride and groom for their official camera, so I think I'm going to be a part of their photo album! All of the people there were very welcoming of our group and some members even came up to us to explain the significance of the ceremony. We then had lunch next to the temple and went back to the hotel to learn about some Indian culture and a sort of orientation of the classes we will be taking this month.
Before dinner we walked around the area of our hotel and experienced the overwhelming open market! The patterns and cool clothing looked amazing, but I couldn't decide what to buy in very little time we had so I'll definitely be going back there soon. :)
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