Tourist Attractions in Mumbai

On Thursday after we returned from our "relaxing" get away, I went on a private tour to the local tourist attractions around Mumbai.  We started out going to the Ghandi museum.  The museum is actually his old house.

There is a large collection of his books and his weaving machine.  

From the Ghandi Museum we went to the Botanical Gardens.  It was really more like a park then a Garden, but they do have a random boot, yes boot that is quite a popular tourist attraction.  The gardens are actually located on the highest elevation of the city, and there is a pretty decent view on the city and what is known as the "Queen's Necklace."  The Queen's Necklace is ultimately the bay on which down town Mumbai encompasses.

 After walking around the gardens for about 20 minutes we headed to the famous Dhoby Ghaut laundry service in India.  You can't really walk down in the facility, but from the picture below you can see that the men wash the clothes in the morning and hang the laundry anywhere possible to dry.  This laundry service is used by all kinds of local businesses, including hotels...I was seriously hoping that the hotel I was staying in did not employ this service, but who knows.

 We then moved down the colonial area of Mumbai, which I found to be the "prettiest" area of the city.  You could really see the British influence in this area of the city.  Below is Queen Victoria's Train station.

 This is city hall and the court justice building

And of course the tour guide also took me to see arguably the most notable tourist attraction in India, the Gateway of India.  The gate way over looks a harbour where you can get a carriage ride along the water front (pictured below).  This wasn't something that was apart of tour but I figured I take a picture anyways.  Ha. 

This concluded my tour of India and ultimately my trip to India.  On Friday Dhara, Vidhi and I spent the day doing all of our shopping.  It was a long week in India and I was very happy to be back in Singapore.  Arriving at Chiangi airport on saturday morning to the sound, or should I say lack there of, of the cars honking, really made me feel like Singapore was my home, and it was great to be back.