Dabbawala, Dhobi Ghat, and Dharavi Tour with Local Train Ride
5.0
(116)
🕑 4 hours
Free cancellation
Enjoy an immersive yet sensitive visit of Asia’s largest slum area on this engaging Mumbai walking tour, led by a resident. Follow your guide through the streets and alleys of Dharavi, learning about local industries and meeting residents along the way. Then visit Mahalaxmi Dhobi Ghat—a massive laundry operation—and meet the busy dabbawallas who deliver thousands of packed lunches across the city every day.
Languages:
English
📍Churchgate, Maharshi Karve Rd, Churchgate, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400020, India
🏢Operated by Mumbai Dream Tours
Highlights
- ✓Explore Asia’s largest slum area with a resident guide
- ✓See the laundry operations at Mahalaxmi Dhobi Ghat
- ✓Learn about dabbawalas, who deliver lunches around the city
- ✓Small group sizes ensure personal attention from your guide
What you'll see & do
- ✓>TOUR HIGHLIGHTS: • Place where Slumdog Millionaire was shot • Leather Industries • Pottery • Making of soap • Bakery • Colour Dye • Small Alley • Schools & Hospitals • Houses in Slum • Plastic Recycling • Muslim people making a shrine for Hindus • Recycling of veg oil can • The most interesting thing, guides himself lives in slums • Slum market
- ✓>Dhobi Ghat ( Open Air-Laundry ) (Mahalaxmi Dhobi Ghat) is a well-known open-air laundromat in Mumbai, India. The washers, locally known as Dhobis, work in the open to wash the clothes from Mumbai’s hotels and hospitals. There are rows of open-air concrete wash pens, each fitted with its own flogging stone. Called the world’s largest outdoor laundry, Dhobi Ghat is a very popular attraction among foreign tourists. The word Dhobi Ghat is used all over India to refer to any place where many washers are present. It is located next to Mahalaxmi railway station on the Western Railway’s Saat Rasta roundabout. It can be easily seen from the flyover bridge of Mahalaxmi station. In 2013, World Records India and World Amazing Records honored World Record Certificate to Dhobi Kalyan.
- ✓Meet The Dabbawalas of Mumbai! For anyone who has ever been to Mumbai, the Dabbawalas are a special class of people who everyone knows! For the uninitiated though – Who is a Dabbawalla? The word “dabbawala” in Hindi when literally translated, means “one who carries a box”. “Dabba” means a box (usually a cylindrical tin or aluminum container). The closest meaning of the dabbawala in English would be the “lunch box delivery man” Each day throughout the city of Mumbai, 5,000 of the dabbawalas deliver some 130,000 dabbas to offices throughout the metropolis. In the nearly 120 years of this service, the dabbawalas’ approach has remained consistent: a semi-literate workforce (the dabbawalas) pick up the filled dabbas from the households that prepare them and deliver the boxes to the requisite offices; they then retrieve the empty dabbas from these delivery points and returned them to the originating households, in order to begin the process again the next day.
What's included
- ✓Transport by Local Train
- ✓Cultured, professional, highly qualified and knowledgeable Guide
What's not included
- ✓Gratuities
- ✓Food and drink
Good to know
Public transportation options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation policy
- •A full refund will apply if you cancel more than 24 hours before the activity start time.
- •No refund is possible if you cancel less than 24 hours before the activity start time.
Free cancellation
🔒 Secure checkout
from
£ 30.00
Dabbawala, Dhobi Ghat, and Dharavi Tour with Local Train Ride
5.0
(116)
🕑 4 hours
Free cancellation
Enjoy an immersive yet sensitive visit of Asia’s largest slum area on this engaging Mumbai walking tour, led by a resident. Follow your guide through the streets and alleys of Dharavi, learning about local industries and meeting residents along the way. Then visit Mahalaxmi Dhobi Ghat—a massive laundry operation—and meet the busy dabbawallas who deliver thousands of packed lunches across the city every day.
Languages:
English
📍Churchgate, Maharshi Karve Rd, Churchgate, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400020, India
🏢Operated by Mumbai Dream Tours
Highlights
- ✓Explore Asia’s largest slum area with a resident guide
- ✓See the laundry operations at Mahalaxmi Dhobi Ghat
- ✓Learn about dabbawalas, who deliver lunches around the city
- ✓Small group sizes ensure personal attention from your guide
What you'll see & do
- ✓>TOUR HIGHLIGHTS: • Place where Slumdog Millionaire was shot • Leather Industries • Pottery • Making of soap • Bakery • Colour Dye • Small Alley • Schools & Hospitals • Houses in Slum • Plastic Recycling • Muslim people making a shrine for Hindus • Recycling of veg oil can • The most interesting thing, guides himself lives in slums • Slum market
- ✓>Dhobi Ghat ( Open Air-Laundry ) (Mahalaxmi Dhobi Ghat) is a well-known open-air laundromat in Mumbai, India. The washers, locally known as Dhobis, work in the open to wash the clothes from Mumbai’s hotels and hospitals. There are rows of open-air concrete wash pens, each fitted with its own flogging stone. Called the world’s largest outdoor laundry, Dhobi Ghat is a very popular attraction among foreign tourists. The word Dhobi Ghat is used all over India to refer to any place where many washers are present. It is located next to Mahalaxmi railway station on the Western Railway’s Saat Rasta roundabout. It can be easily seen from the flyover bridge of Mahalaxmi station. In 2013, World Records India and World Amazing Records honored World Record Certificate to Dhobi Kalyan.
- ✓Meet The Dabbawalas of Mumbai! For anyone who has ever been to Mumbai, the Dabbawalas are a special class of people who everyone knows! For the uninitiated though – Who is a Dabbawalla? The word “dabbawala” in Hindi when literally translated, means “one who carries a box”. “Dabba” means a box (usually a cylindrical tin or aluminum container). The closest meaning of the dabbawala in English would be the “lunch box delivery man” Each day throughout the city of Mumbai, 5,000 of the dabbawalas deliver some 130,000 dabbas to offices throughout the metropolis. In the nearly 120 years of this service, the dabbawalas’ approach has remained consistent: a semi-literate workforce (the dabbawalas) pick up the filled dabbas from the households that prepare them and deliver the boxes to the requisite offices; they then retrieve the empty dabbas from these delivery points and returned them to the originating households, in order to begin the process again the next day.
What's included
- ✓Transport by Local Train
- ✓Cultured, professional, highly qualified and knowledgeable Guide
What's not included
- ✓Gratuities
- ✓Food and drink
Good to know
Public transportation options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation policy
- •A full refund will apply if you cancel more than 24 hours before the activity start time.
- •No refund is possible if you cancel less than 24 hours before the activity start time.
Free cancellation
🔒 Secure checkout
from
£ 30.00