Mumbai/Bombay, India: This is one impressive city, the Brits left the Indians a heck of a lot of grand Victorian architecture, executed in stone. If the Indians add nothing whatsoever for a century, it will still be a grand city.
Bombay is far and away the most impressive place we've seen in the Subcontinent. If I were to design an ideal tour of India for Westerners, it would be based on "monuments of Empire, plus the Taj Mahal," end of story. And Bombay would be the base camp from which we would foray.
Our tour yesterday ended with high tea at the Taj Mahal Hotel,a world class property. This is the hotel which was attacked by terrorists awhile ago. The security they've now installed equals that at an airport, no kidding.
