The metropolis of Mumbai sets the pace for all western India, its commerce, cinema, energy and global profile instrumental in the rise of the country’s ambitions. The heart of the city contains some of the grandest colonial-era architecture on the planet but explore a little more and you’ll uncover unique bazaars, hidden temples, hipster enclaves and India’s premier restaurants and nightlife.
Mumbai, formerly Bombay, is big. It’s full of dreamers and hard-labourers, starlets and gangsters, stray dogs and exotic birds, artists and servants, fisherfolk and millionaires, and lots and lots of people. It has India’s most prolific film industry - Bollywood, some of Asia’s biggest slums (as well as the world’s most expensive home) and the largest tropical forest in an urban zone.