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SLUM TOURISM IN INDIA Location : Dharavi across from the Bandra
Kurla Complex, Mumbai Area : 530 acre land and 1,000,000 population Major Occupations : Potters, Plastic and Metal recyclers, Tailors, Washermen Contribution to GDP : Goods worth 500 Million Dollars |
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Kumbharbada, Dharavi
It’s quite amazing to see the shanties amidst the skyscrapers. In India a new tourism venture is emerging, some call it 'Slum Tourism' while a section put it as a 'Poor-ism' for enthusiastic tourists. Whatever, the term may be used, tourists are showing keen interest in roaming through the fetid alleys of the fly infested slum areas to learn about the real India. The Reality Tours and travels made their way easy by providing the packages to know and explore the un-trodden path of struggling life style in Mumbai's Dharavi slum settlement. Don't miss a chance to visit the slum and know what it makes to be happy, definitely - not money!
Dharavi Market
When you will go through the lanes of Dharavi, Asia's
largest slum settlement in Mumbai you will be surprised to know that it
was actually a marshy land turned dumping ground, now turned sub-city.
Based on the 530- acre land Dharavi is home to 100,000 people with
markets, manufacturing grids, one- room cinemas, public schools and
shanties.
The east flank of the Mahim Station is dominated by the plastic and metal
recycling catacombs of 13th compound. It is amazing to see the heavy
machinery’s melting and molding the plastic pellets for toys and
button manufacturers producing Barbi Dolls of India. The delicious aroma
from tiny bakeries and sweet shops, the exotic smell of soaps and
cosmetics creates new magical incense, one can feel instantaneously. The
dime-sized cyber cafes, mass-producing tailors, altar shapers and the
children waving from the precipitous balconies is the most happening in
slums that qualifies an active show and tell.
Khumbarwada area is the place occupied by the potter’s community
from Gujarat, the origin habitat of Dharavi zone, they set up their
communal clay pits and kilns in the 1930. where the mud wells and kilns
portray the story of struggle and hardships with each round of the potters
wheel and unfurls the luster of this region. Come and had a look what you
can’t experience at any other place other than the Brazil's Fevalas
and India's Dharavi.
The slum tourism of Mumbai paves the way for the curious tourists from all over the world to know and explore the life of people living here, that is full of struggle for existence but still make them happy. There are many tours and trips conducted to this slum dwellings, almost catering 50 tourists a month. One can opt for four and a half hour long morning tour and for two and a half-hour afternoon tour to the area. The tourists should be prepared for a long walk in the company of a guide who will have lot of stories to share with. Know and learn the basics of life from these slums that serve as institutions of philosophy for the man with vision.
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