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Mumbai Sightseeing Tour Including Dharavi Slum

Start your private tour with pickup from your Mumbai hotel, or from the cruise port or railway station.Delve into the streets in a private, air-conditioned car with your guide, and hear about Mumbai’s history. Learn about daily life here, and pass tiny bread and sweet shops.
Duration 7 hours
Private tour available in English, Spanish, German
Group tour available in English, Spanish, German
Group tour pricing from 40 USD per person
The tour gave an inside of the life of the people. Ajaw was very clear in his explanation. He toke the time for us and showed all the different sides of the slum. Thank you

Highlights

Private city tour of Mumbai, including Dharavi Slum

Walk through Dharavi slum

Personalized attention from a private guide

Learn about daily life here and absorb the strong community

Famous Places like Gateway of India and Taj Palace Hotel

Description

Start your private tour with pickup from your Mumbai hotel, or from the cruise port or railway station.
Delve into the streets in a private, air-conditioned car with your guide, and hear about Mumbai’s history, including its time under British rule from the 18th to the 20th century, and how it is India’s second-largest city, with a population of about 18.4 million.
Stop first at the vast Dharavi Slum, Asia’s biggest, and home to nearly a million people. Take a walk through this town-within-a-town, crammed with thousands of makeshift huts. Learn about daily life here, and pass tiny bread and sweet shops, interspersed with dimly-lit manufacturing units hosting small-scale clothes-, pottery-, and soap-making businesses.
Absorb the strong sense of community, and visit the plastic and metal recycling yard, where workers sort materials for re-use, before delving into Kumbharwada, the community of clay potters dubbed the ‘city of lamps.’ Explore the lanes here, weaving through thousands of hand-made, kiln-fired pots being crafted as oil lamps for festivals.
Having explored Dharavi, take a tour of the colonial and modern faces of Mumbai.

What’s included & not included

Guided walking tour of Mumbai

Roundtrip transportation to and from your accomodation

Toll, parking , Fuel

Monument Entry

Meals

Meeting point

Reviews from travelers (4)

5.00/5
Dharavi slum tour
The tour gave an inside of the life of the people. Ajaw was very clear in his explanation. He toke the time for us and showed all the different sides of the slum. Thank you
Journey through the Dharavi slums
Hello everyone! I will tell You about our journey through the Dharavi slums. We were able to go there on 20.10.19. We agreed with providers about convenient time for us. Exactly at the appoint time we were met at the hotel by car and taken to the place of the starting. Our tour was in english. We very simply understood each other. First we were able to see the famous local open-air laundry where daily the Dhobi caste do laundry. Then we went directly into the slums. We were shown the unhealthy plastic recycling process, the local bakery and other slums crafts. None of locals asked us for money! I will stop to describe, those who dare necessarily see for themselves. General impressions. Solid five for prividers! Do not doubt You will get out of Your zone of comfort. Some facts can be shocking and beyond belief. For example, hygiene and nutrition. I saw that even in the slums very very slowly but the digital age is coming. You can meet people with cheap mobile phones on it’s streets. Undoubtedly they are progressing. Of course we were taken out of the slums and driven back to ohr hotel) Tips. You need to respect the local rules and listen to the Guide! Please, if You are asked not to make photos You do not need to experiment to create problems for Yourself and the Guide. Where You can - You will be allowed. People are happy there - watch for correctness of Your statements! Always listen to the Guide. Do not be lazy to buy rubber/rain boots that will not be sorry to leave there, it is hard to find it in India. Thanks for the tour to MysticalMumbai! This is a sad priceless experience that will remain for the life term!
personal tour of Dharavi
I was interested in seeing slums to see the economic and business nature of them, I had heard about. The tour guide was very knowledgable and showed me a number of businesses and factories that produce goods or recycle things. I had a lot of questions and he was happy to stop and answer all of them. Overall the tour was very interesting, none of the local hassled as I was with the guide and I felt safe the whole time. I would highly recommend the tour if you can make time. Possibly not the most interesting place for children but teenagers onwards should see this.
Mumbai
shailesh jethva
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