Mumbai!

Mumbai is the capital of Maharashtra and the economic powerhouse of India. As the world's largest textiles market, a major industrial centre and the country busiest port handling over 40 percent of India maritime trade. Mumbai, the largest metropolis in India, is an island city connected by bridges to the western coast of the Indian mainland. The principal part of the city is concentrated at the southern claw-shaped end of the island and is known as South Mumbai. This is where most attractions, businesses and tourist facilities are located. It includes Colaba, the Fort, Church gate, Nariman Point, Marine Drive, Chowpatty and Malabar Hills. Mumbai is known as the city of dreams, fantasies and fairy tales. To many, Mumbai is the glamour of Bollywood cinema, cricket on the maidans on weekends, bhelpuri on the beach at Chowpatty and red double-decker buses while Mumbai city also contains a very true and determinant prospective of life too, recognizable in the pictorial world of country's technological and financial background Mumbai pulsates with activity. It is a city that is disciplined by no time frame-neither by day nor night. Mumbai is also the country's financial powerhouse, the nation's industrial heartland, and its economic nerve centre. Dazzling shopping arcades, exciting sport activity, night clubs and discotheques, theatre and music, gourmet restaurants and interesting sightseeing - Mumbai offers the visitor a heady mix of all this and more.

Mumbai People
Mumbai, renowned for its spirit of religious tolerance and their people, is a cosmopolitan city where Hindu, Muslim, Parsi, Jain, Budhist Christian and Jew mingled peacefully and worshipped side by side. A large number of people from different parts of the country come to settle in this city every year and Mumbai continues to grow, to absorb and most importantly to prosper.

Weather
winter in Mumbai extends from mid-October to the end of February. The thermometer invariably peaks around 33o C, the sky is clear and the humidity bearable. Winter nights are temperate rather than muggy.

Best time to visit Mumbai
can be visited any time of the year, though the hot and humid months of June, July and August are best avoided. Budget and mid-range accommodation becomes hard to find and process occasionally rise between mid-December and early January as thousands of backpackers pass through on their way to and from Christmas celebration in Goa.