MSC Cruises has expanded its itineraries for 2018, opening routes in such exotic destinations as India. In November 2018, specifically the MSC Lirica will make its debut in the United Arab Emirates and will arrive in India, offering two nights in Mumbai. The trips that are planned, and that include the Fly & Cruise service, are of 11 or 14 nights.
So that you better know this port and some of the most interesting places that you can visit on your stopover, I suggest that you continue reading this article.
Mumbai is the most important port in India, and like most of the cities of this subcontinent it is chaotic and crowded, it lives more than a million people, although it also brings moments of peace. This city has deep historical, cultural and spiritual contradictions.
The first thing that will catch your attention, as soon as you arrive to the port are the gates of India, this great monument was built to commemorate the royal visit in 1911. Then you can visit the Shree Siddhivinayak temple, one of the most extravagant Hindu temples you can imagine, or the Basilica of Santa María del Monte, a Catholic building that thousands of pilgrims go to every year, or the Mosque and tomb of the Sufi saint Pir Haji Ali Shah Bukhari. A curiosity about this place is that you can only arrive, and leave accordingly, when there is low tide.
An excursion that you cannot miss and that your cruise will surely offer you is to go to the Elephanta Island, also known as Gharapuri. In it you will discover 7 caves, although 5 are the ones that can be visited. They are caves excavated between 450 and 750 BC, two of them are representative of Buddhism, and the rest of Hinduism, it is the temple of Shiva that was declared, at the end of the 80s, Heritage of humanity by unesco.
I think this article is too short for all that Bombay has to discover, but with this I wanted to encourage your curiosity.