On Monday morning we packed our backpacks for Nightbus to Goa. We had a nice "western" breakfast in Sadguru eating pizza and veggie burger. Atleast kinda...
The Pizza was about 7" wide but over 2" thick, veggie burger was awesome, but the salad was piled over the paddy (not in between, a bit of challenge to eat as fingerfood). After this greasy snack we paid our hotel and took a taxi to Mumbai Central Station.
In the city center we went to see the "beach" area, aka ½km of trash and boats on 50m wide strip of sand. No swimmers or sun worshippers here, but ok views to skyscrapers around city's shoreline.
The Diwali celebrations were going on around the city, we saw a couple of drum groups marching in streets and also mobile DJ-trucks going through busy streets with few hundred ravers going crazy around them.
After spending the day walking aimlessly around the city we ate some more (Thali & Chinese) and went to bus stop wait for the bus. Our luxurious bus arrived about 20 minutes too late and there was englishmen sitting in our beds. No problem once again, the Indian conductor/hustler/spare driver gave us another beds, on last row of the bus, directly above the engine. A real treat...
Also it started to thunder just at the same time as our bus left so in the end we were really lucky to catch it (we were originally thinking of taking a bus ½h later but luckily we took the earlier one, sitting extra ½h in curb of busy street without shelter would have been shit in a storm...)
The bus journey was nice and shaky, there was no toilet in the bus and unfortunately Mariska felt herself a bit seasick after couple of hours. Luckily there was 2 toilet stops in our 14½ hour (officially 12 hour) trip.
The Pizza was about 7" wide but over 2" thick, veggie burger was awesome, but the salad was piled over the paddy (not in between, a bit of challenge to eat as fingerfood). After this greasy snack we paid our hotel and took a taxi to Mumbai Central Station.
In the city center we went to see the "beach" area, aka ½km of trash and boats on 50m wide strip of sand. No swimmers or sun worshippers here, but ok views to skyscrapers around city's shoreline.
The Diwali celebrations were going on around the city, we saw a couple of drum groups marching in streets and also mobile DJ-trucks going through busy streets with few hundred ravers going crazy around them.
After spending the day walking aimlessly around the city we ate some more (Thali & Chinese) and went to bus stop wait for the bus. Our luxurious bus arrived about 20 minutes too late and there was englishmen sitting in our beds. No problem once again, the Indian conductor/hustler/spare driver gave us another beds, on last row of the bus, directly above the engine. A real treat...
Diwali streetpartyy
Also it started to thunder just at the same time as our bus left so in the end we were really lucky to catch it (we were originally thinking of taking a bus ½h later but luckily we took the earlier one, sitting extra ½h in curb of busy street without shelter would have been shit in a storm...)
The bus journey was nice and shaky, there was no toilet in the bus and unfortunately Mariska felt herself a bit seasick after couple of hours. Luckily there was 2 toilet stops in our 14½ hour (officially 12 hour) trip.
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