Well, it is not exactly an undiscovered part of the city. However, it is not a highly frequented place either and I was surprised to know that lot of Mumbai natives had not been here, like two of the three friends who accompanied me on the trip. After a hearty lunch a Café Churchill at Colaba and a lousy cup of coffee at Café Samovar (Jehangir Gallery), we headed to the main reason for our Saturday town trip, Chor Bazar.
Maze-is how I would describe the geography of the place. Colorful maze rather! Full of interesting snippets including a goat drinking water out of a municipal tap booth and cars, scooters being dissected and each and every part of them being dismantled!
The shops have variety of unique stuff like rusty car number plates and sign boards and old tattered old movie posters. I just felt that these were quite overpriced (Around Rs 400-500 for car number plate!). My favorite shop would have to be the Victoria style clocks shop. Now that would be something worth buying, really beautiful! Other fun stuff was antique chandeliers and lovely alcohol bottles.
You can easily spend an hour meandering through the place or may be even a little more than that if you are not impatient and lazy like me! So go check it out, if you still haven’t.
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Brilliant weekend-afternoon idea!
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