Mumbai to Aurangubad – 1 day

March 16th

Tick…

We got up the next day, knackered, but we had to get moving. We checked out and dropped our bags in reception and went out to grab a slice of Mumbai culture in the 4 hours we had remaining. We took the LP walking tour up to the Admiralty Arch along the waterfront. We planned to take a boat over to Elephantine Island but it was just too hot. We followed the tour for about another half an hour and then abandoned it on the grounds it was complete shite. Instead we took refuge in the cool and tranquil shade of the Prince Charles Museum. It had a great section of Buddhist and Vedish icons in Indian culture. It also had an exhibition upstairs on Tibet and Nepal. We were both very excited by this as we were planning to visit both countries after Pakistan. We also explored the natural history section which had some interesting flora and fauna. Then it was time to rock on.

We headed back to the hotel, picked up our rucksacks, bumped in to the Polish couple and gave them our map of goa. We grabbed a taxi and headed to the domestic flight terminal to fly to Aurangabad. Our flight was delayed. My view of Indian domestic flights was beginning to get a little tainted.

We ended up sitting around for the afternoon until we finally were allowed to board our flight. It was a twin propeller aircraft, a nice machine and good fun to fly in. We were stuck on the flight for another hour until take off. We ended up in Aurangabad nearly three hours late. We got to the hotel and had a late meal and a nargile and then fell into bed, knackered.