Essence of Mumbai: Inside the Age-old Traditions of India's City of Dreams

Immerse yourself in the age-old traditions and cultural essence of Mumbai, India’s City of Dreams. Discover the Dabbawallas, Dhobighat, and the vibrant Koli community on this engaging cultural experience tour.

Duration:
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights

Our guide and driver will meet you at your hotel, airport, or train station to begin this cultural experience of Mumbai. The tour starts with a visit to the Koli community, where you’ll interact with locals and learn about life in the bustling city of Mumbai. Next, we’ll head to the train station to observe the Dabbawallas, who have been delivering…

What's Included
  • Dedicated English-speaking guide and driver
  • Comfortable AC car transport
  • Convenient hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Complimentary bottled water
  • Inclusive of lunch
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

The Cultural experience tour will give you a deeper understanding of the Mumbai Culture and age old traditions that still exist in the bustling city of Dreams. Embark on this tour to see the cultural essence of Mumbai. From the century old Dabbawallas who has been delivering tiffins using Local trains and cycles to the Simple coding to figure out the…

Location
Amaze Tours
F P S Road, Opposite Raheja Centre
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Mf0601
Jan 23, 2025
Mumbai full day guided sightseeing tour with transfers - We had a full day tour with Meze was exceptional. His English was brilliant and he explained everything perfectly. He didn't rush anything and he took as much time as we needed to understand the various parts of the tour. I thoroughly enjoyed my day, we covered so much. Mez was a wonderful young man, very respectful and polite. Our driver, I think his name was Aslan was also so good. They both really liked after us and gave us a truly memorable day - thank you
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Terry_d
Nov 7, 2024
Just ask for Alan! - We did a 2 day tour with Alan. It included cultural experiences and food experiences. He is the most excellent tour guide we have had on our island hopping journey. Great cultural and historical knowledge. Knows the good food places. Patient, thoughtful, helpful. We even took a train ride. I would highly recommend going with him in Mumbai.
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V8250pcstephaniel
Nov 1, 2024
Best Guided Mumbai Tour Experience - How lucky was I to be connected with Alam as my personal guide while I was in Mumbai. Not only did he agree to meet me the day I arrived with only a few hours notice, he spent three days with me to offer a comprehensive experience. I was visiting during Diwali and Alam me advised on where to go each day, including personalized Diwali experiences. He even brought fireworks to the Diwali celebration for me. His in depth knowledge of where to go and most importantly when, customizing each day to my personal interests was so appreciated. We explored the city by night, a Buddhist temple at 7:30am, and I was the first international visitor into the National Park to visit the Buddhist caves and a host of other sights. If you are looking for the perfect guided experience I could not more highly recommend Alam and his colleagues more — truly. He takes a lot of personal pride in showcasing Mumbai. He was on time and has an impeccable knowledge of how to navigate the city by air conditioned car. You will not meet a better guide — personal or as a group.
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Passenger654962
Apr 3, 2023
Well experienced tour, highly recommended! - Our tour guide Alan is experienced tour guide who explained well every spot and very passionate. Just a pity that we can’t watch the Dabawalu because of the ceremony.
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Timetoroam
Mar 15, 2020
An AMAZE-ing Day! - I took the day tour of all the local highlights with Rameez as the guide and Ayyappan as the driver. This was a great team who worked well together. Rameez was extremely knowledgeable about all of the sites and took some great photos of me as I was traveling alone that day. He also took me to a great place for some street food when I told him I was hungry. Ayyappan was a wonderful driver who navigated the crazy streets of Mumbai with ease. If I’m ever back in Mumbai and take another tour, I will definitely request these two .
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Doris_t
Jan 20, 2020
Wonderful cultural experience - We met representatives from Amaze outside the green gate at the cruise terminal. A driver took us to meet our guide at the laundry. Unlike many other tours we got to go inside the laundry. It was amazing to see the people working inside. Then we asked to see the slums. Our guide, Geneshe, gave us an unbelievable tour. It was obvious that he had a lot of love and respect for the people working and living there. We rode the train and ate a meal in a restaurant. I felt like we had the best guide in all of India!
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Katielincolnshie
Mar 5, 2019
Small guided tour - We were in Mumbai for 2 days from a cruise. The information provided before arrival was very good. We were met by our guide Danesh. He was excellent and very informative. Our group of 4 in a taxi did everything and more provided by the cruise. In fact the company provided guides for the cruise tour . Our experience was very personal, we could ask as many questions as we wanted. Please do not hesitate in using this company .
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Tponn123
Dec 31, 2018
Amazing day trip in Mumbai - A group of 18 adults took the 1 day tour with Amaze Tours thru Viator. We booked this tour prior to our Dubai/India cruise. Our tour guide Ahad was friendly; knowledgeable and responsible. The tour started from the cruise terminal at 9am to 4pm in the afternoon. it was a full day itinerary, Ahad took us to the largest train station; Marine Road ; the richest/wealthy area to the largest Open Laundry; the poorest area. Amazing experience.
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Glen
Nov 28, 2018
An excellent Tour - We went on this tour from our hostel , with an excellent guide called Dinesh, we went to a lovely cathedral , the famous Victoria Train station , the pick up point where the 'lunch box ' system operates,( what a brilliant idea) and the famous Dharavi slum, and saw the plastic factory ,the place where the leather is treated and dyed and the residential area where we went to a house and has a delious lunch. All this was dine using public transport. We want to thank Dinesh again for giving us so much information on these places and making sure everyone got on the trains and buses he certainly knows his stuff and is professional but very friendly and a wonderful person too. It's a well recommended tour as the slum is full of tiny walkways. We finally ended our tour to the biggest out door laundry and once again Dinesh was full of information about it ,very interesting to see.
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Gorg3ous
Oct 17, 2018
The 1 tour you need to do in Mumbai - If you have only time for one tour, this is it. It brings you to all the sights and sounds... and smell... of Mumbai. Our guide, Alam, was fantastic. Given that it was a Sunday and not having to deal with the traffic that plagues Mumbai during the weekday, we were brought to many more places that was on the original itinerary. We were even brought to a smaller dhoby ghat where we got to take photos with one of the dhobies. This is the trip that you need to do when in Mumbai.
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