Today was dedicated to visiting elephanta caves, an how off the coast of mumbai. I'm starting to realise that its probably a lot easier to travel by taxi in mumbai, you will get a lot more accomplished! It took us about an hour to walk a 15 minute journey! Whenever you stop and ask for directions, you are met with a friendly head wobble and gesturing in a definite direction. This direction is definitely not always the correct one! We discovered this today while trying to find the gateway to india. A huge landmark in mumbai, a lot of locals will not be able to tell you where it is!
Eventually we took a can when we realised we's walked in completely the wrong direction for 10 minutes!
The caves were lovely, but would've been nice to spend more time there!
Oh I forgot, we got distracted on the way to the train station in the search of food and ended up walking through lovely suburban streets. I bought a coconut and drink such delicious coconut milk. It might become a regular thing now!
On the way back from the caves we took a rickshaw to the hostel and the driver was trying to tell us something we couldn't understand. at the end of the journey we realised he wanted the metre price plus 20, we all looked indignant and when I threatened to report him to the traffic police I got a smile and a friendly head wobble as he drove away. Guess he had to try! He's been my favourite taxi driver so far!
Tomorrow I'm going on a slum tour at 10 with Pilar
