Full-Day Private Guided Tour of Mumbai Highlights
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Full-Day Private Guided Tour of Mumbai Highlights
Free cancellation
Up to 24 hours in advance. Learn more
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8 to 9 hours (Approx.)
Pickup offered
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English and 3 more
Good for avoiding crowds
Overview
Discover Mumbai’s must-sees in one day on a private 9-hour city tour. With a private guide, see the Gateway to India and Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, and uncover India’s history at Mahatma Gandhi’s former home of Mani Bhawan, and the Prince of Wales Museum. Plus, view the terraced Pherozeshah Meht gardens, the Mahalaxmi Dhobi Ghat, Mumbai’s extraordinary open-air laundry, and more. Private air-conditioned transport plus hotel, port, and airport transfers included. Entrance fees not included.
- Private full-day city sightseeing tour of Mumbai
- Learn about Mumbai’s history, architecture, and culture
- Admire the Gateway to India and Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, formerly Victoria rail station
- Stop at the Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Mandai (Crawford Market) and Pherozeshah Mehta gardens
- Visit the Prince of Wales Museum and Mani Bhawan, once home to Mahatma Gandhi
- Delve into Mahalaxmi Dhobi Ghat, the city’s vast open-air laundry
- Private air-conditioned transport, including Mumbai hotel, port, and airport pickup and drop-off
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After pickup from your Mumbai hotel or Mumbai airport or port, set off by private, air-conditioned vehicle with your guide.
See the Gateway to India, the 1924 archway that symbolizes the city, and view the UNESCO-listed Victorian Gothic masterpiece of Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST), formerly called the Victoria railway station.
Walk around 19th-century Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Mandai, previously Crawford Market, seeing the stalls selling fresh foods and other wares, and venture along Marine Drive, the waterfront around Mumbai bay flanked by elegant 1920s buildings and nicknamed the ‘Queen’s Necklace.’
Admire the terraced hillside gardens of Pherozeshah Mehta (Hanging Gardens), and visit Mani Bhawan, the former home of Mahatma Gandhi where he laid down many of the principles behind India’s independence movement.
After lunch (own expense), explore Mahalaxmi Dhobi Ghat, the world’s largest unmechanized laundry facility. See the open-air pens where dhobis (laundry workers) clean thousands of garments daily, and hear about this extraordinary laundry’s history.
Then, pass landmarks including the High Court and Haji Ali Dargah, the island mosque that shimmers mirage-like from offshore, and visit the Prince of Wales Museum (own expense).
After viewing some of India’s most precious historical art here, your tour concludes at the starting point.
See the Gateway to India, the 1924 archway that symbolizes the city, and view the UNESCO-listed Victorian Gothic masterpiece of Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST), formerly called the Victoria railway station.
Walk around 19th-century Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Mandai, previously Crawford Market, seeing the stalls selling fresh foods and other wares, and venture along Marine Drive, the waterfront around Mumbai bay flanked by elegant 1920s buildings and nicknamed the ‘Queen’s Necklace.’
Admire the terraced hillside gardens of Pherozeshah Mehta (Hanging Gardens), and visit Mani Bhawan, the former home of Mahatma Gandhi where he laid down many of the principles behind India’s independence movement.
After lunch (own expense), explore Mahalaxmi Dhobi Ghat, the world’s largest unmechanized laundry facility. See the open-air pens where dhobis (laundry workers) clean thousands of garments daily, and hear about this extraordinary laundry’s history.
Then, pass landmarks including the High Court and Haji Ali Dargah, the island mosque that shimmers mirage-like from offshore, and visit the Prince of Wales Museum (own expense).
After viewing some of India’s most precious historical art here, your tour concludes at the starting point.
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After pickup from your Mumbai hotel or Mumbai airport or port, set off by private air-conditioned vehicle with your guide and visit Gateway of India, This bold basalt arch of colonial triumph faces out to Mumbai Harbour. It was built to commemorate the 1911 royal visit of King George V.
Duration: 30 minutes
Admission Ticket Free
View the UNESCO-listed Victorian Gothic masterpiece of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CST), Imposing, exuberant and overflowing with people, this monumental train station is the city’s most extravagant Gothic building and an aphorism of colonial-era India.
Duration: 30 minutes
Admission Ticket Free
Previously known as Crawford Market is the largest in Mumbai, and contains the last whiff of British Bombay before the tumult of the central bazaars begins. Fruit and vegetables, meat and fish are mainly traded, it's also a touristy spot to stock up on spices.
Duration: 30 minutes
Admission Ticket Free
Also known as Pherozeshah Mehta Gardens, are terraced gardens perched at the top of Malabar Hill, on its western side, just opposite the Kamala Nehru Park. They provide sunset views over the Arabian Sea and feature numerous hedges carved into the shapes of animals.
Duration: 30 minutes
Admission Ticket Free
As poignant as it is tiny, this museum is in the building where Mahatma Gandhi stayed during visits to Bombay from 1917 to 1934. Exhibitions include his personal room, a photographic record of his life, along with dioramas and documents, such as letters he wrote to Adolf Hitler and Franklin D Roosevelt and tributes from Ho Chi Minh and Albert Einstein.
Duration: 30 minutes
Admission Ticket Not Included
This 140-year-old dhobi ghat (place where clothes are washed) is Mumbai’s biggest human-powered washing machine, every day hundreds of people beat the dirt out of thousands of kilograms of soiled Mumbai clothes and linen in 1026 open-air troughs. The best view is from the bridge across the railway tracks near Mahalaxmi train station.
Duration: 15 minutes
Admission Ticket Free
Formerly known as the Prince of Wales Museum, it was designed by George Wittet — who incidentally was also the brains behind the Gateway of India. Apart from the gorgeous architecture, the museum is known for harbouring artefacts from the Mughal empire, as well rare heirlooms from Europe, Nepal, Tibet, Japan, and China.
After viewing some of India’s most precious historical art here, your tour concludes at the starting point or other desired location in Mumbai.
Duration: 1 hour
Admission Ticket Not Included
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