Mumbai today, is more than just a metropolis. It is infact an enigma of mud huts and sky- scrapers, age old traditions and high fashions, the industrialists' heaven and movie makers' hollywood. A lovely natural harbour and winding creek set off the city of Mumbai from the long, narrow coast of Western India. Mumbai pulsates with activity. It is a city that is disciplined by no time frame-neither by day nor night. Mumbai is also the country's financial powerhouse, the nation's industrial heartland, and its economic nerve centre. Dazzling shopping arcades, exciting sport activity, night clubs and discotheques, theatre and music, gourmet restaurants and interesting sightseeing.

The Gateway to India is a 26 metre high stone archway landmark of Mumbai that a visitor sees when arriving by ship. Designed by Wittet in the 16th century Gujarat style, it was built to commemorate the visit of King George V and Queen Mary to India in 1911. This crypto-Moresque archway welcomed numerous viceroys, governors and top civil servants as they disembarked by launch from their P & 0 steamers.

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