Itinerary

1. Private Mumbai Sightseeing Tour Including Dharavi Slum

   • Start your private tour with pickup from your Mumbai hotel or the cruise port or railway station.

   • Delve into the streets in a private, air-conditioned car with your Mumbai/Bombay tour guide, and hear about Mumbai's history, including its time under British rule from the 18th to the 20th century, and how it is India's second-largest city, with a population of about 18.4 million.

   • Stop first at the vast Dharavi Slum, Asia's biggest and home to nearly a million people. Take a walk through this town-within-a-town, crammed with thousands of makeshift huts. Learn about daily life here, and pass tiny bread and sweet shops interspersed with dimly-lit manufacturing units hosting small-scale clothes, pottery, and soap-making businesses.

   • Absorb the strong sense of community, and visit the plastic and metal recycling yard, where workers sort materials for re-use, before delving into Kumbharwada, the community of clay potters dubbed as the 'city of lamps.' Explore the lanes here, weaving through thousands of hand-made, kiln-fired pots crafted as oil lamps for festivals.

   • Having explored Dharavi, take a tour of the colonial and modern faces of Mumbai.

   • Admire the Gateway of India, built to commemorate a 1911 visit by King George V, and see the imposing Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, opened in 1903.

   • Hear historical tales and anecdotes en route, and stop at landmarks including the UNESCO-listed Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus train station, Mumbai University with its Big Ben-style Rajabai Clock Tower, and the Oval Cricket Ground and Bombay High Court.

   • See Mumbai's Dhobi Ghat, Asia's biggest open-air laundry, together with Mahatma Gandhi's former residence and the Hanging Gardens on top of water tanks.

   • Plus, drive past the colonial buildings on Marine Drive, seeing the Prince of Wales Museum, Flora Fountain, the Telegraph Office, and more.

   • End your tour back at the departure point.