Mumbai sightseeing

The weather is not too hot here, though it is certainly quite humid. Nevertheless, after an hour or so of walking around I was just a bit sticky so I went back to the hotel and to hire a driver to take me around the city. A much more sensible idea. These are the highlights:

The Gateway to India - the archway built to honor the arrival of King George V and Queen Mary back in 1911. It is quite an impressive archway on the shore of the bay, but it was undergoing a bit of renovation during my visit, making it a bit of a construction site.

The Victoria Terminus Building - the railway terminus built in the late 1800's which is a spectacular piece of architecture. Inside it is crowded and chaotic, but from the outside it looks beautifully calm - not at all like a railway station.

The Gandh Museum - a museum devoted to the life of Gandhi in a house where he used to stay. Interesting photographs and bits of history from the life of Gandhi including a letter to Herr Hitler asking him to give some thought to preventing World War II.

The Dhobi Ghats - a huge laundry where hundreds, perhaps thousands of men beat and pummel laundry in outdoor troughs and then hang it out to dry. Apparently if you send out your laundry in Mumbai, there's a good chance it gets manually processed here.

Tomorrow its more Mumbai and then on by overnight train to Delhi.