This year March I have gone to Mumbai to meet my friend. I caught my Flight from Chennai and reached Mumbai @ 6.30 PM. It was jet airways flight and their service were good. I collected my luggage and tried to catch a taxi. Normally its too difficult to get taxi from there. Fortunately I got a pre paid taxi from there. I taken the coupon upto Vashi.
The Cab was a black coloured with a yellow strip around it. The experience in the cab is interesting !!!! I like that......
I reached my friends apartments by 9.30 AM . Fresh up in a hour and had breakfast...
Me my friend Jijo went to the nearest railway station to catch train to CST. As you know the Train services are the vain of the Mumbai city. If Train stops I think Mumbai will stop...
you can't imagine the crowd at railway station. That much crowd at all the stations.
We took ticket upto CST and finally we reached Chatrapati Shivaji Terminal, you can see the Image of the terminal. Its looks like an old palace. It was build during the British East India Company period. Before Indian Independence.
I took a snap of the cab also. On another cab we gone to a hotel Named Gulshan E Iran.
It was max 5 to 10 mins from CST railway station.
You can see the pic of Gulshan E Iran hotel. If you get a chance to go Mumbai u must go to this hotel.. The food were really tasty and delicious....
Now its the time to visit the Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaja Vastu Sangrahalaya. Its a museum with lot of precious and old ornaments/military equipments/signs of old Mharajas etc...
On the way I tried to take some more snaps...
Streets of Mumbai.. Even though its a huge city it maintained well and tried to keep it up....
At last we reached Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya. I took a photo of its entrance area..
Its well protected and its necessary considering today's situations...
Thanks to its authorities to keep these monuments well and clear..
Its for our future generations.
Thanks friends and on my next post I will continue with other Mumbai travel stories.....
Good Byee..... !!!!!!!!!!!
Volvo Bus Journey to Trivandrum
Today I got an opportunity to start my journey from Vytilla Mobility Hub, Ernakulam to Trivandrum. Nowadays Cochin is in a path of wind of change.......Vytilla Mobility Hub is a recent face of Cochin. Hub is well maintained, I think its the only one KSRTC (Kerala State Road Transport Corporation) bus-stand that is maintained in such a quality, in Kerala. Some lady staffs were standing with cleaning mops and waste pans to remove the wastes immediately.
I was looking for a long time to catch a bus. I sat on a chair and kept the luggage aside to me. Started listening music on my iphone.. After waiting some time, one superfast bus approching towards the bus-stand and by seeing the bus, crowds rushed to the bus.They ran near to the bus and covered the entrance . I took my luggage and tried to get in the bus , but all my efforts were in vain. I came back to the seat, continued listening music...
After 10-15mins one volvo bus struck on my view. I just walked near to that. Crowd didn't notice the volvo bus arrived the stand (usually its services are limited to local area and it was not used for long distant traveling....). Some people identified the destination of the bus and tried to get in. I ran fast and some how got into the bus. Picture of the bus given below. :)
Bus was really good and A/C inside the bus kept me more comfortable....
I took ticket to Trivandrum and stand at the back side of the bus . Charges were double than the normal superfast charges. but its fine..
I think the seats for this buses are designed for short distance travelling not for long distance travel.
All the seats were fully occupied and I was standing upto Allepy. I got one friend during the trip and thats makes me talkative upto Kayamkulam (he get down at there).
Finally at 11PM I reached Trivandrum KSRTC Stand....
It was a good journey .............
KSRTC Volvo Bus :)
