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Mumbai mein dum (has resilience) hai

My trip to mera mahan Bharat began with blog worthy material from the get go.  My first encounter was with Mumbai - happened in the form of arrivals hall in T2 terminal.  Wow.  Mumbai needs this rather India needed this long while back but they hit a boundary (cricket term to mean home run) with this product.

Not only is the physical facility well done and welcoming but the ease of doing your business was noteworthy.  Thrre is One way clear signage leaving the jetway to guide passangers towards immigration passing through a well laid out storyboard of murals depicting Mumbai's history and culture.  All the art can be enjoyed as you glide on working motorized beltways in air conditioned cool.  Even the hand sanitizer dispensing machine dispensed the needed dose to ultra paranoid visitors like myself.

The service deserved a star rating as well.  Multiple immigration agents in uniform processed our arrivals within 15 minutes and we went through customs in another 15.

The process side of the house could use some work as in alerting visitors about forms that need filling out to baggage handling requirements at customs check.  We figured things on the fly given our desi attitudes but a foreigner could feel somewhat lost.

All in all I was glad to see this page turn for the better.

Later the next day we toured Mumbai from its northern fringe to the south tip (about 20 miles distance) reaching the Gateway of India (built to welcome a British viceroy) and got to ride new express roads that were truly express.

More of the typical mahan (better deal than Ripley's believe it or not) things later.

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