ABOUT THE THE LONGER YARD:
This tour is a half day experience,Dharavi has an active informal economy in which numerous household enterprises employ many of the slum residents, leather, textiles and pottery products are among the goods made inside Dharavi. Most of these things are created innovatively, in very small spaces!
Before the visit to Dharavi slum we pass through Red Light Area (Kamathipura) & Dhobi Gath (Open Air Laundry)
>Kamathipura (also spelled Kamthipuram)
is Mumbai’s oldest and Asia’s second largest Red-Light District. It was first settled after 1795 with the construction of causeways that connected the erstwhile seven islands of Bombay. Initially known as Lal Bazaar, it got its name from the Kamathis (workers) of other areas of the country, who were labourers on construction sites. Due to tough police crackdown, in the late 1990s with the rise of AIDS and government’s redevelopment policy that helped sex workers to move out of the profession and subsequently out of Kamathipura, the number of sex workers in the area has dwindled. In 1992, Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) recorded there were 50,000 sex workers here which was reduced to 1,600 in 2009, with many sex workers migrating to other areas in Maharashtra and real estate developers taking over the high-priced real estate.
>Dhobi Ghat
(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 flyover bridge of Mahalaxmi station.
In 2013, World Records India and World Amazing Records honoured World Record Certificate to Dhobi Kalyan & Audhyogik Vikas Co – op. Society Ltd.The Saat Rasta Project is a proposed Public Space Project along the Bapurao Jagtap Road, connecting Jacob Circle to the Mahalaxmi Railway Station. This public space will connect to Dhobi Ghat, which is also a major tourist attraction.
>TOUR HIGHLIGHTS:
- KAMATHIPURA (RED LIGHT AREA): An area well known but rarely talked about, the Kamathipura district is a land harbouring a torrid affair between man and his sexual desires. Prostitution out in the open, and families torn and broken, these lanes speak of stories with distorted realities and unfavourable outcomes.
- DHOBI GHAT: See the Dhobiwallahs or human washing machines, scrubbing, washing and beating sheets and clothes from Mumbai’s largest hospitals, hotels and garment industries at this busy open air laundry locality!
- RECYCLING AREA: Everything old from plastics to metal come from all over to be recycled at Dharavi. See the recycling plants in which separation and melting of the wastes takes place.
- BAKERY: Khari Biscuits hot and fresh from the source, available in every kind and served on a platter!
- POPADDOM MAKING: Watch the Dharavi women making poppadoms, the essential appetizer before every Indian meal. It is done by drying them on wooden baskets, turned upside-down.
- RESIDENTIAL HOUSES: Bask in the creativity of the humble dwellings of the incredible people of Dharavi.
- KUMBHARWADA POTTERY COLONY: Watch artisans create all types of pots out of unfired, sundried clay and even learn a thing or two
.>PRICING:
- Group Tour :INR 1,300/- Rupees per person. You will be accompanied with up to four other travelers,
- Private Tour: INR 6,000/- Rupees.You can bring a maximum of five people on your private tour.
>TIME:
- Operates every day
- Duration: 4-5 hours
- Morning Tour: 8:30 AM
- Afternoon Tour: 2:00 PM
>MEETING LOCATION:
- Morning Tour: Regal Cinema, Colaba
- Afternoon Tour: Regal Cinema, Colaba
>Inclusions
- Entrance fees to all site attractions
- Cultured,professional ,highly qualified and knowledgeable Guide
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Transport by air-conditioned vehicle
> For any Further Queries please connect with us and we shall be glad to assist You.
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