8 Local Spots in Mumbai Tourists Don't Know About
8 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Colaba Causeway
Shahid Bhagat Singh Marg, Colaba, Mumbai, 400005, India
Colaba Causeway is Mumbai's most famous shopping and eating street — a commercial corridor in the Colaba district south of the Gateway of India that combines street vendors (selling everything from jewellery and clothing to antiques and bootleg Bollywood DVDs), colonial-era cafés, and the tourist-oriented commerce of a neighbourhood that has been Mumbai's first point of contact with visitors since the days of the steamship.
Crawford Market (Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Mandai)
Dadabhai Naoroji Road, Fort, Mumbai, 400001, India
Crawford Market is Mumbai's grandest Victorian market hall — a stone building designed by William Emerson in 1869 with bas-reliefs by Rudyard Kipling's father (John Lockwood Kipling) and a Norman-Gothic interior that provides the setting for one of Mumbai's most intense commercial experiences.
Dharavi
Dharavi, Mumbai, 400017, India
Dharavi is one of the largest slums in Asia — a 2.
Dhobi Ghat
Mahalaxmi, Mumbai, 400018, India
Dhobi Ghat is the world's largest open-air laundry — a 140-year-old complex of concrete wash pens where over 7,000 dhobis (washermen and washerwomen) hand-wash clothes and linens from Mumbai's hotels, hospitals, and households using methods that have been used since the facility was built during the British Raj.
Hanging Gardens of Malabar Hill
Simla Nagar, Mumbai, 400006, India
The Hanging Gardens (Pherozeshah Mehta Gardens) are terraced gardens on the western slope of Malabar Hill that sit atop the reservoir supplying much of South Mumbai with drinking water — an arrangement that allegedly dates to the 1880s when the reservoir was covered and planted to prevent the Parsi Towers of Silence nearby from contaminating the water with vultures dropping bits of bone.
Juhu Beach
Juhu, Mumbai, 400049, India
Juhu Beach is Mumbai's most famous beach — a 6-kilometre stretch of sand in the northern suburbs that is simultaneously a social gathering place, a street food paradise, and the backyard of Bollywood, with the beachfront homes of Amitabh Bachchan (Jalsa) and other film stars lining the southern end.
Marine Drive & Chowpatty Beach
Marine Drive, Nariman Point, Mumbai, 400021, India
Marine Drive is Mumbai's 3.
Worli Koliwada
Worli, Mumbai, 400030, India
Worli Koliwada is the oldest surviving fishing village in Mumbai — home to the Koli community, the indigenous fisherfolk who have lived on these islands since before the Portuguese arrived in 1534 and whose culture, cuisine, and settlements predate the city by centuries.
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