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Magnificent Mumbai

Mumbai, a megapolis with its skyscrapers and sprawling business parks is acknowledged as the financial nerve centre and commercial hub of India. This city a potpourri of many communities and cultures.

Overview

  • Film City

    Film City clings to the outskirts of the National Park, and is practically overrun by assorted stars and starlets. Bollywood churns out over 900 films every year. Special permissions are required to visit the place.

  • Sanjay Gandhi National Park

    Sanjay Gandhi National Park, breathtakingly beautiful, filled with dense forests and dotted with sylvan lakes.

  • Kanheri Caves

    Kanheri Caves are Buddhist caves or monasteries where monks practiced their austerities around the first century AD. Situated in the heart of Mumbai's National Park, the complex contains more than a hundred tiny cells cut into the flank of a hill.

  • Gateway of India

    Gateway of India, Mumbai's most famous monument, was built as a triumphal arch to commemorate the visit of King George V and Queen Mary, when the British Rule ended in 1947 and the last of the British ships set sail for England from the Gateway.

  • Elephanta Caves

    Hewn out of solid rock, the Elephanta Caves date back to 600 AD. The cave complex is a collection of shrines, courtyards, inner cells, grand halls and porticos arranged in the splendid symmetry of Indian rock-cut architecture, and filled with exquisite stone sculptures of Hindu Gods and Goddesses

  • The Prince of Wales Museum

    The Prince of Wales Museum is an Indo-Saracenic building that houses an excellent collection of antiques, miniature paintings, Buddhist images and sculptures originally from the Elephanta Caves.