Travelling Around Mumbai

Saturday, August 26, 2006

It can get quite tiring travelling around Mumbai, whether by car or by foot. Not that it's physically draining. It's just that everywhere you go, people keep coming up to you to sell things, to beg for money, to try to bring you around...

Along the street near our hotel, people would come up to you and ask if you want cashmere shawls or pashminas.

At Colaba market, stall holders do the same.

Even in a hotel's shopping arcade, people are doing the same thing.

I haven't even looked at what they are selling and they will ask you "Can I help you?" Can't they just let me look at things in peace.

Travel in a car and people walk up to you try to sell you books, flowers, toys, etc.

Beggars are everywhere too, whether you are walking along a street or in a car, nothing stops them from asking for money.

Even taking a cab is also a bother. The cab driver would ask where you are going and try to push some tour package at you. Or they bring you to somewhere you don't want to go.

It's rather weary trying to fend off all these people. Yes. They add colour to the city but it's a little too much colour for my liking.