I woke up around 7am after a good night's sleep and read in my bunk for a while with my headlamp (thanks Julia & Alicia!) before falling back to sleep. I woke up again around 10am when Bish was running around the cabin telling everyone to wake up.
After packing our bags, we started watching out the windows. As we were entering Mumbai, we started seeing loads of slums on the sides of the train tracks - houses made of blue tarpaulin or cement with makeshift tin roofs. We disembarked at the far end of Mumbai and took cabs to the hotel - these were pretty spacious cabs and we barely had to put any luggage on the roof!
After having nice cold showers (Mumbai is really hot!) we went for an orientation walk around the old city. We saw the gateway to India (a big archway) and were asked by an Indian tourist to hold his baby so he could get a picture of a white person holding his kid. Just plain weird. No thank you!
We did some shopping in the market (nice tshirt for 100 rupees! Didn't even have to barter!), stopped for a pint, and had dinner (some Chinese fried noodles for me - my tummy still isn't 100%) before retiring for the night.
Early morning flight to Goa tomorrow!
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