Monsoon Season in Mumbai
Monday, July 3rd, 2006
There was finally a long enough break in the middle of one of these monsoony days that I could run out and snap some photos of the floods without my camera being destroyed by the rain.
Most of Mumbai doesn’t have proper drainage systems, and the ones that are around are so clogged with garbage that they don’t work.
THere, you see a badly-photoshopped Panaroma of what looks like the Venice of India.
I wish I there was some kind of size reference in this photo so you could see how huge this frog was. Hint: It could eat small children.
On the left, you will see a policeman making his rounds.
The kids were loving it as much as I was. They looked like they hadn’t had this much fun since Holi!
These are the toned town photos. I wish I could snap some pictures during a monsoon, rather than the aftermath, but it’d be the last photos my camera ever took!
May 1st, 2007 at 3:22 am
Dear Ryan Estrada
My name is Ville Marjanen from Finland, Scandinavia. I am planning a trip to India from late June to early July and I was looking for information about the monsoon season in India and especially in Mumbai. I know that this time of years is not the best possible to travel to India, but what I am trying to find out is whether it makes any sense to travel to India at all during the monsoon, or should I try to visit India some other time when I have holiday. Based on your photos conditions for visiting Mumbai during monsoon are very challenging, but are the floods something that last some days or is this the situation Mumbai every day during the monsoon? How often does it rain (everyday, every other day) and how long the daily rains usually are?
Thanks for information, your opinion and advise already in advance.
Best regards,
Ville Marjanen form Finland