Mumbai Weekend
Taj Mahal Palace Hotel and a typical crowd of selfie-takers We are safely back in the US, but I wanted to do one last post about our last few days in India. They started out with a trip on the night train from Miraj to India. The train trip was uneventful (if you don't count trying to use the bathroom while the train was bumping over the tracks), but our driver to the train station was a hoot. He told us that Miraj was the city of 3 D's: Dust, Doctors and Donkeys. This is a pretty accurate summary of the main features of Miraj :) After a very bumpy train ride, we arrived in Mumbai. On our first day, we visited the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, or King Shivaji Museum. Shivaji was the founder of the Maratha Empire, which ruled India in the 18th century, and many places in Mumbai are named after him, including the airport and a train station. The museum is a beautiful old building surrounded by a perfectly manicu...