Mumbai, India - December 2nd, 2006

Mumbai is like a peninsula, pointing south, and greater Mumbai is divided in three parts where the southern part is called Colaba, and most tourists stayed there.

The seven islands that now form Mumbai were first house to the Koli fisherfolk as far back as the 2nd century BC. Koli shanties still occupy parts of the city shorline today. The islands were ruled by a sucession of Hindu dynasties from the 6th century AD, invaded by Muslims in the 14th century and then ceeded to Portugal by the sultan of Gujarat in 1534.