We just got the hotel in Mumbai. We're both very exhausted from the flight, but excited to finally have a tangible experience of India and what lies ahead for us.
Mumbai is like no city I've ever seen. Our only impression of the city so far is from the window of the tiny taxi cab that we got at the airport driving across the city to the hotel. It's 4am, there are people sleeping all over the streets. Young men sleeping shirtless on small towels on the sidwalk. Entire families sleeping in the same way. And cab drivers strewn over their hoods and windsheilds as if they were hit by their car and fell asleep there. Storefronts, shacks, and buildings of all sorts are pushed together on top of eachother. It's warm and humid even at this hour. My glasses instantly fogged when I stepped out of the airport doors.
We're at the hotel now, which seems nice enough: air conditioner, wifi, two clean beds, bottled water. It's located in a part of the city called Fort, which we think is near quite a few things that we want to do and see.
I am posting through maria's, it's eema, though. if otherwise, there will be no eema as the signature: so good to read your stuff; so exciting to know you're in the midst of such excitement. beware of wolfs, but if you have to skip into puddles, oh well... such is life.
ReplyDeletelove you much, eema