From human pyramids to cave parties: the 8 best festivals in Mumbai
4 min read • Sep 30, 2019
Visiting Mumbai during festival time means seeing the city at its most vibrant. Join the fun at one of these eight spectacular celebrations.
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- Beach bum-bai: the 7 best beaches near Mumbai
5 min read • Sep 27, 2019
From celeb spotting in Juhu to scuba diving at Tarkarli, here is our pick of the seven best beach escapes near Mumbai.
- Learn a craft in India, Asia's creative hub
8 min read • Apr 24, 2019
In India, the lavish decoration of everyday objects is a national obsession. Making the mundane magnificent is an expression of joy and an antidote to…
- Best detours from Mumbai
6 min read • Nov 22, 2018
Fondly referred to as the city of dreams, India’s financial centre is a buzzing metropolis, a place of night-time illuminations, towering skyscrapers,…
- Lights, camera, Bollywood: exploring cinematic Mumbai
6 min read • Nov 16, 2018
Often called mayanagari (city of dreams), Mumbai is synonymous with Bollywood, India’s largest film industry and one of the biggest movie machines on…
- Eat the streets: discovering Mumbai’s best street food
5 min read • Apr 13, 2018
Mumbai is a dizzying, dazzling metropolis, a city that never tires and never sleeps. If you’ve ever wondered what keeps this Indian megacity going, you’ll…
- Mumbai's Deco Dreams: 2000 years of architecture in India's mega-metropolis
10 min read • Mar 6, 2018
Picture the scene: tropical sunshine, swaying palm trees, lapping waves. And row after row of elegantly geometric Art Deco apartments. It would be easy to…
- How to live like a Local in Mumbai
3 min read • Dec 6, 2017
Lonely Planet Local Deepika Gumaste was born in Mumbai and has lived in the city for nearly 30 years. Deepika’s work as a travel writer has taken her far…
- Mumbai for free: ten top experiences in India's city of dreams
5 min read • Jul 6, 2017
Amidst the swirl and chaos of Mumbai’s slums, high rise towers and buzzing bazaars, it is easy to feel overwhelmed. But as you delve deeper into Mumbai,…
- Around Mumbai in seven faiths
9 min read • Jan 9, 2017
Holy is not a word usually used to describe Mumbai. With its slums, Bollywood divas, millionaires and mafia, and its extremes of poverty and decadence,…
- Meet Mumbai – India's modern megacity
5 min read • Sep 29, 2015
A gargantuan, pulsating metropolis that reinvents itself every time you blink, Mumbai is India’s most modern and most happening city. The best…
- Eat Mumbai – make the most of India's foodie capital
7 min read • Sep 29, 2015
Visitors to Mumbai think it’s all about the spices, and when it comes to the city's delicious cuisine, they might be right. India's economic capital draws…
- 24 hours in Mumbai
7 min read • Sep 25, 2013
Be prepared to be jostled, hurried and incessantly chatted to as you soak in the trendy yet traditional vibe of Mumbai.
- Mumbai for sweet-toothed travellers
5 min read • Aug 23, 2012
Unknown to many travellers, South Asia has a whole genre – a large one – of food known as mithai, which literally translates as 'sweets'. Some of them…
- Riding the rails like a Mumbaikar
5 min read • Nov 4, 2011
At rush hour in Mumbai, the ladies’ car of the city’s Western Line train is stuffed with working ladies in smart salwar kameez sets, tribal women with…
- SStuck inside during monsoon season? Have a hot rum toddy
2 min read • Aug 19, 2010
When in India during monsoon season, there’s almost nothing to beat a hot rum toddy to warm the very depths of your body and spirit when it’s pouring…
- MMumbai: the city that has it all
3 min read • Jul 13, 2010
Mumbai is big. It’s full of dreamers and hard-labourers, actors and gangsters, stray dogs and exotic birds, artists and servants and fisherfolk and…