Salaam Bombay

What is that reminds you of certain places? Is it the smell? The architecture perhaps? The dress sense of the people there? Organized chaos can be one of them and if it is, 'Bom baii' or 'beautiful bay' fits the bill.

Cafe life and upscale dining emporiums clash with market stalls huddled next to tailor shops. Tourists are easily spotted and descended on by ragtag streetchildren trying to feed themselves by begging from well heeled passersby. The travellers are usually left to their own devices, only occasionally being mistook for weekly visitors.

Streethawkers sell all manner of wares from bhudda bags to Gucci glasses. A short tour of the area shows a barber grooming a client sitting on a raised barbers chair with waxes and oils being applied, oblivious to the cacophony of sounds that surround his stage.

Car horns tooting have as many meanings to other drivers as the nod of a head. Nodding from side to side can mean a 'yes, no, maybe, not quite yet, what do you think, oh really' or just about anything you want to interrupt it to.

Sample the delights because this city is full of Eastern promise.