Mumbai, Bollywood and the beach

We ended up in Mumbai instead of Ajanta due to the high season on the trains but it was good that we went! Oh and we are alive!!!! Mumbai was so busy but a great city! When we first got to Mumbai we were tired- as we just got off a 29hr train journey. We then got a taxi which over charged us, which was so annoying but it did take us to the right place which was Colaba, which is the main tourist part of Mumbai.We eventually found a hotel to stay in after trudging around Colaba in the midday heat.

Mumbai is a really expensive place to stay but we got one of the cheapest room with a sharing bathroom- which was clean but I'm sure I was the only Women in this place haha. In the evening we met some travellera and had dinner and swapped stories with them but we were so tired that we just went to bed. In the morning we went to Elephanta Island to have a look round, we had to get a boat ride, which was so cool and a great way to cool down. The Island was good, we walked to the top of canon hill and had a look at the view and the tunnels-very interesting. There were loads of other tourists there and so we all got chatting and when we went back to Mumbai we all went to eat in a traditional Indian restaurant! The food was sooooooo hot!!! But it was great fun to meet new people.

Our new friends gave us a number of a casting agency, who hire foreigners for Bollywood movies and so we called and the very next day we were picked up at 8am and were then taken to the Bollywood set! So exciting!!! We were split up into boys and girls, they boys went and had breakfast and the girls went to have their hair and makeup done- I was hoping for a sari and traditional accessories but unfortunately the set was based in a London nihghtclub! So western clothes for me! Haha, but it was fun getting all dressed up and it was pretty cool to be in a Bollywood movie,it was a long day of fake dancing but we met some great people!

The next day we had to get up early to take a train to Margaon - which is the gateway to India, we were looking for a place to stay when a really nice young Indian women said we could stay at her guesthouse in Colva for the night and so we took a taxi and we stayed with her family. It was so nice to be in a family home surrounded by pictures and Christmas decorations including a tree!!! This morning we took a walk to the beach and found a great place to stay right on the beach and so we will be here through Christmas and New year!! Oh and there are cows on the beach- epic! xxxxxx