Today has been a brilliant day, so much done! I started the day with a type of the biggest slum in mumbai, the third biggest in the world. What an interesting place! Its an entire community inside the slum, and its also the place where most of india's plastic is being recycled. I felt so bad about the vast amounts of bottled water I was drinking but now I know it helps give someone a job, a rather dreadful job of searching through dumpsters to find the plastic bottles, but a job none the less. The plastic is sorted in the slum, broken down and dried on the roofs of the buildings. This is then melted down and made into long thun cables of plastic that are cut up into little squares and sold to plastic manufacturers. So those sunglasses you're wearing could easily have been recycled plastic from Dharavi slum.
After touring the slum Crawford market was next on the list where I couldn't help but buy some incredible smelling spices, apparently the best in india. He also delivers internationally... I bought some tea spices, that are better than going to the doctor and some masala spice. 97 different spices mixed into that packet! Makes any curry taste good! Guess who'll be making the best curry in durban... Haha! Vedanthi your mom's is still the best indian curry I've had in durban!
I'm now in the fancy air con waiting room, waiting another 1.5 hours for my train to goa.
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