Sights at the Chor Bazar

A few weeks back we headed to the Hilton Hotel in south Bombay for a Tourism Award evening. As traffic is always a consideration we decided to suit up in Juhu and drive Noddy to town leaving two hours for the 25km trip. We were late but we looked great and created a stir as we stepped out of Noddy and handed over the keys for Valet parking.. We love it... At the finish of the evening the valet boys drove Noddy up the ramp and it took 4 of them to make sure we knew it was an old Indian car. "Old is gold", said the leader and like royalty without a driver we jumped in and roared off...

We stayed with Ash that night and next morning headed back to Chor Bazar, the "Thieves Markets" for a bit of xmas shopping. We found a few things to buy or at least entered the price negotiations, old doors that convert to nice tables, turkish lamps, Art Deco furnishings. There's so much stuff there, shops spill onto the gritty streets with all sorts of objects which haven't broken when they've been thrown out, or weren't wrecked in the accident leaving little space for the people to sleep or animals to feed..



On the way back to Juhu we saw the smallest hearse we've seen...
A bongo van with a big window and roof racks with the coffins stacked inside..

It's not funny really..