Oct 16, 2019 • 7 min read
Volunteering for a beach clean allows travellers to do good, get outdoors and meet locals. Here are six cities where you can help to clean the coastline.
Sep 30, 2019 • 4 min read
Visiting Mumbai during festival time means seeing the city at its most vibrant. Join the fun at one of these eight spectacular celebrations.
Sep 27, 2019 • 5 min read
From celeb spotting in Juhu to scuba diving at Tarkarli, here is our pick of the seven best beach escapes near Mumbai.
Apr 24, 2019 • 8 min read
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…
Nov 22, 2018 • 6 min read
Fondly referred to as the city of dreams, India’s financial capital is a buzzing metropolis, a place of night-time illuminations, towering skyscrapers…
Nov 16, 2018 • 6 min read
Dubbed the city of dreams, Mumbai is synonymous with Bollywood, India’s largest film industry and one of the biggest movie machines on…
Apr 13, 2018 • 5 min read
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…
Mar 6, 2018 • 10 min read
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…
Dec 6, 2017 • 3 min read
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…
Jul 6, 2017 • 5 min read
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,…
Jan 9, 2017 • 9 min read
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,…
Sep 29, 2015 • 5 min read
A gargantuan, pulsating metropolis that reinvents itself every time you blink, Mumbai is India’s most modern and most happening city. The best…
Sep 29, 2015 • 7 min read
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…
Sep 25, 2013 • 7 min read
Be prepared to be jostled, hurried and incessantly chatted to as you soak in the trendy yet traditional vibe of Mumbai.
Aug 23, 2012 • 5 min read
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…
Nov 4, 2011 • 5 min read
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…
Aug 19, 2010 • 2 min read
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…
Jul 13, 2010 • 3 min read
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…