MUMBAI · INDIA
Bombay heritage, Bollywood lights, and the Arabian Sea.
Heritage walks through Fort and Colaba, day trips to Elephanta, the Dharavi tour every visitor takes, and Bollywood Film City.
The essential Mumbai
If you only book one tour, start here.
For most travellers, this is the first booking they make. The Mumbai tour everyone takes a story home from.
The classics
Mumbai's Most Popular Tours
Dharavi, Elephanta, the Heritage Walk, Bollywood Film City. The tours every Mumbai itinerary covers.
Only in Mumbai
Three things you can’t do anywhere else.
The slum that became Oscar-famous. The open-air laundry that’s run for 130 years. The film industry that puts out more movies than Hollywood. Worth planning around.
Oscar-famous
The Dharavi Walk
Subject of Slumdog Millionaire and home to a $1 billion informal economy crammed into 2.4 km². Walk it with resident guides — pottery, leather, recycling and a million stories per block. The square mile every visitor takes home a story from.
- 1 Mumbai: Dharavi Slum, DhobiGhat, and Dabbawallas Tour
- 2 Dharavi Slum Tour
- 3 Dharavi Slum tour in Mumbai by local resident
World's oldest
Dhobi Ghat
The world's largest open-air laundry. A hundred thousand garments washed by hand every day since 1890. Concrete pens, soap, sweat, sun. Viewable from the Mahalaxmi bridge above — closer, and with the context, with a guide.
- 1 Mumbai: Dhobi Ghat Laundry and Dharavi Slum Tour with Local
- 2 Mumbai: Dharavi Slum & Dhobi Ghat Laundry Tour
- 3 Mumbai: Dharavi Slum and Dhobi Ghat Laundry Tour
More than Hollywood
Bollywood Film City
Largest film industry on earth by output — Mumbai puts out three times more films per year than Hollywood. Walk active sets, watch a song-and-dance shoot in motion, occasionally meet the stars. The studios that put the city on the global map.
- 1 Best Bollywood Tour with Rahil Khan (Transport Included)
- 2 Ultimate Mumbai Full Day: Sights, Bollywood Dance, Lunch & Spices
- 3 Mumbai: Bollywood Tour in Mumbai Film City
By neighbourhood
Pick a corner of Mumbai.
Fort and Colaba for the heritage stone. South Mumbai for Marine Drive. Bandra for the sea wall and the lanes. Dharavi for the most-walked square mile in India. Mahalaxmi for the open-air laundry.
By time of day
Mumbai changes every six hours.
Heritage walks in the morning before the city hits 32°. Cruises and Marine Drive at sunset. Street food and night markets when the office crowd lets out. The same city, three different cities.
Morning
Heritage walks before the city hits 32°.Fort and Colaba walking tours. Cool stone, empty lanes, the Gateway in soft light. Most days start with a tour.
Evening
Sunset on the Queen's Necklace.Marine Drive lights up, the harbour goes pink, dinner cruises push off from the Gateway. The Bombay you came for.
After Dark
Street food and the city that doesn't sleep.Vada pav stalls, midnight markets, food walks through Mohammed Ali Road. The Bombay locals actually live in.
By activity
Or pick how you want to spend the day.
Walking for the heritage. Bollywood for the studios. Street food for the chaat. A heritage tour for the architecture. A cruise for the harbour at dusk.
The island day
Mumbai’s UNESCO day trip.
An hour by ferry from the Gateway. Sixth-century rock-cut Shiva caves on an island in the harbour. Three Elephanta tours we’d send our friends on.
On the street
Vada pav and the rest.
Bhel puri at the beach. Pav bhaji at midnight. Chaat down Mohammed Ali Road. If you ask us, start with these three walks.
Bombay heritage
The Bombay you came for.
Victoria Terminus, the Gateway, Crawford Market, Indo-Saracenic façades on every corner. The walks that show you why Bombay still lives inside Mumbai.
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