Maximum City

It had been 8 years since I last visited the financial capital of India. I was on a vacation spree this January. As I had mentioned in my prev blogs, I had been to Nainital with my two friends. I wanted stay in Mumbai while coming back to my place. It had really been long time. I stayed for 6 days at my cousin’s place this time. The first impression when I landed in Mumbai was: Mumbai had changed. And it had transformed into this one huge city. I love to loiter around & this was the perfect city. I have been to Bangalore many times but I’ve never felt good in the city. May be coz of traffic, pollution or may be the population itself. I get this phobia when I visit Bangalore. But Mumbai was a bit better. Traffic system was excellent; people were full of activity & always running around, the local buses & trains… well, the latter was the most exciting one. Traveling in a local train was enthralling, astonishing. Astonishing coz I had never seen such huge number of people boarding one train at a time. And the 5 sec stop at every station… wow! How on earth these people manage to travel? I would have backed out but as they say Mumbai demands you to be swift, intelligent & quirky. The main attractions of this city are people, buildings & the sea! Sky scrapers, historic buildings… they are everywhere! I loved CST station a lot. It’s wonderful. And of course the Taj… It still stood tall after the 26/11 attack. It’s marvelous. Then there are those shopping malls. In-Orbit was one of the malls I visited & it is huge. The most important place I fancied to visit was the Hard Rock Café. I had visited the Bangalore outlet last time & that made me to visit the Mumbai one. My cousin & I searched it for hours. And finally we landed at the café. I love rock stars & this was the perfect place to view their memorabilia. The guitars, the dresses… whoa! Awesome! But the cost of the foodstuff is high. But its worth to spend some bucks & listen to the classic songs.
Mumbai was fun. No wonder they say it’s the MAXIMUM CITY!