Dabbawala, Dhobi Ghat & Dharavi slum Tour with Local Train Ride

5.0 (119 reviews) Mumbai, India
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LanguagesEnglish
Group sizeUp to 15 travelers

Overview

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 closest meaning of the dabbawala in English would be the “lunch box delivery man”

>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.

>Why Dharavi is the heart of Mumbai? ( Slum Tour )
Asia’s largest slum Dharavi lies on prime property right in the middle of Indian’s financial capital, Mumbai. Dharavi is much more than a historic area of Mumbai’s poverty. Most of these things are created innovatively, in very small spaces!

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Dabbawala with Lunch & Pottery

Pottery Making: Get hands-on with pottery Making. visiting a local potter’s workshop—where we’ll get a general overview of pottery making.
Duration: 4 hours
Lunch with Family: Lunch with a nearby family home for a Vegetarian Meal. Get comfortable and feast the local way. sitting on the floor and eat
Tour Schedule: Meet our Experience Guide. Meet Dabbawala Take a local train Ride Walk in Dhobi Ghat and Dharavi slum. Enjoy lunch & pottery
Local Train Ride Experience: Take a Mumbai Local Train Ride experience on the tour.

Dabbawala, Dhobi Ghat & Dharavi slum Tour with Local Train Ride

What's included

  • Transport by Local Train
  • Cultured, professional, highly qualified and knowledgeable Guide
  • Gratuities
  • Food and drink

What to expect

  1. Dharavi
    2h
    >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
  2. Dhobi Ghat
    1h
    >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.
  3. Dabbawala Tribute Statue
    1h
    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.

Meeting and pickup

Meeting point

Our Guide will meet you at our meeting point at Churchgate Railway station near the ticket window

End point

Additional information

  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Cancellation policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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