I arrived safe and sound in Mumbai the other day and have been desperately trying to acclimate myself to the sudden weather change from 20 degrees Fahrenheit in Beijing to the 90 degrees in Mumbai. Having grown up in Vancouver, my comfort zone seems to be 40 to 80 degrees. Anything outside that range, I’m pretty uncomfortable. In a conversation this morning, however, I decided I would prefer to freeze to death than overheat that’s for sure

My time in Mumbai has been largely unremarkable as I didn’t have too much of an affinity for this city. We went to the famous Elephanta Island for an afternoon where I found out that (a) the elephant that was on this island was relocated to a zoo a long time ago and (b) it’s hilarious to see Chaitanya get attacked by a wild monkey for his bottle of drinking water

Fil joined up with us today and we’ll continue the rest of travels together. We’re leaving tommorow morning for Mahabaleshwar to meet up with Craig, which will be great since I haven’t seen him since before Thanksgiving. Suraj will be joining us closer to New Year’s in Goa and is the first time any of us have seen him since his departure from Seattle in August.

Here are 2 photos we took one from my tiny point-and-shoot and one from Fil’s Fuji F31d.

This one was taken inside the cab from Shaheen’s aunt’s place to the restaurant of the night. The cab had this crazy blue colored light inside that we asked the driver to turn on:

Fil is a genius when it comes to panaromas! This one was taken in the famous Trishna restaurant:

Goodbye Mumbai, hello Mahabaleshwar!