Wanderlust Tales : Mumbai darshan

In continuation, after our visit to the Shree Siddhivinayak temple, which you can read about it in the below posts:

https://xylo742.blogspot.in/2016/11/wanderlust-tales-shree-siddhivinayak.html

We made our way to the famous MahaLakshmi temple - it is dedicated to the MahaLakshmi the central deity of Devi Mahatmyam. As usual, as in every temple - the temple was flocked by the pilgrims coming from far off lands. The temple is well maintained - but there is a immense wait of about 1-2 hours before you can have the darshan. But the crowd is still better managed.

On our way, we saw the pigeons being feed by on goers.

One can travel in Mumbai is with ease - you can hire the typical yellow cabs and they take you to and fro in the city. And drive from the Chowpathy to the Marine drive was absolutely stunning, breathtaking!! Just let your hair down and enjoy the view.

Marine Drive, I would say was the most exotic place in Mumbai.

Picturesque - glancing one end of city with its towering high rise buildings. Beauty - truly deserves the name "Queen's necklace".
It is a 4km stretch located in the South Mumbai. It is a "C" shaped stretch along the coast forming a natural bay. Watch out for the calmness of the sea gulfing down everything in its arms. Serene!!

Albeit the official name of the road is Netaji Subhash Chandra Nose Road.

The area and the buildings in and around the Marine drive constructed at a very early time - looked very old. But lucky residents or the offices setup around here - witnessing this beauty, each day !!

One thing that would catch your eye are the a very specific shaped concrete structure placed all around before the sea meets the concrete walls. These are the tetra-pods - four legged concrete structure designed to dissipate force of incoming waves by allowing the water to flow around rather against it. There are about 6,500 of those in there, each weighing about 2 tonnes.

Mumbai - a place where every women are considered to be the safest at any hour. They can live their life freely and be bindaas.
And as you see, the beautiful lady spending time all by herself.

Most of the buildings - had the old Gothian and Victorian architecture. According to writer Jan Morris : Bombay is one of the most characteristically Victorian cities in the world, displaying all grand effrontery of Victorian eclectism."

And finally we came to the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus to board our train back to Pune. In front of the terminus, you would find many jewelery, clothing and many other stalls for fulfilling your street shopping desire.

Cheers to life!!

~Journey  of a thousand miles begins with a single step! :)

P.S. All the above photos have been clicked by me.