10 people
3.5 Hours
₹1500
Across The Divide: A Contrast Tour covering Bandra and Dharavi







Tourist Guide In Mumbai - Mumbai Tour Guide
Mumbai is often called the city of dreams — but not all dreams rise the same way. In this story-driven walking experience, a tourist guide in Mumbai leads us through a narrative shaped by the insights that a seasoned tourist guide in Mumbai can provide, revealing the contrasts and connections between two of the city's most complex neighbourhoods: Bandra and Dharavi. This isn’t a slum tour or a heritage walk. It’s a layered journey across two realities — bound by a shared city, shaped by very different forces: capital, culture, craft, and community.
Tour Description
Duration : 3.5 hours
Max. Participation: 10
Price : ₹1500/person
Private Tour- Rs. 3,000 per person (includes an air-conditioned vehicle)
Includes :
- Expert Local Guide,
- 1 Bottled Water,
- Bus Fare,
- Train fare,
- Auto Fare
Excludes :
Hotel Pick up and drop off,
Personal Expense,
Tips for Guide,
Cab Fare (Keep Rs. 100 in cash)
Narrative Sequence
Meeting Point: Taj Lands End, Bandra West
Mumbai is often called the city of dreams — but not all dreams rise the same way.
In this story-driven walking experience, we follow a narrative that reveals the contrasts and connections between two of the city’s most complex neighbourhoods: Bandra and Dharavi.
Led by a guide who steps into the role of narrator, this journey moves like a live film — where each location deepens the story, and each street corner raises a new question about belonging, ambition, and survival.
Scene 1: Beginnings by the Sea
We begin at Bandra Fort, overlooking the Arabian Sea — once the edge of Portuguese Bombay. From here, we hop into an auto-rickshaw ride down Bandstand, past luxury residences and fading fishing villages, exploring what it means to belong in a city constantly remaking itself.
Inside Ranwar Village and near St. Andrew’s Church, we encounter Bandra’s East Indian roots — tucked into mosaic-tiled porches, old chapels, and lanes now dotted with studios and cafés. It’s a Bandra where memory and modernity live side by side.
Scene 2: The Great Divide
At Bandra Station, the geography — and story — shift. A short local train ride takes us to Mahim, where we enter Dharavi, often misunderstood but alive with energy and ingenuity.
Scene 3: Clay, Craft and Community
In the 13th Compound, we walk past recycling units, leather workshops, metal and textile artisans, each with stories shaped by migration, resourcefulness, and skill.
From there, we walk through to Kumbharwada, the potter’s colony — a dense, vibrant network of lanes where papad-makers, potters, and small-scale industries carry on legacies of labour and craft.
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Things to Note
1. We encourage using public transportation (taxis, tuk tuk, train and bus) in the general tour. 2. Please carry a minimum of ₹100 for cab fare 3. Private Tour at ₹3,000 per person includes air-conditioned vehicle, all food tastings and other fees and taxes For more information download the brochure
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