Mumbai by Dawn Tour: An Insider's Look into City's Trade and Culture

Experience the vibrant trade and culture of Mumbai on this 3-hour dawn tour. Explore bustling markets, witness fish auctions, and learn about the city’s rich history. Wake up early for an unforgettable insider’s look into the soul of Mumbai!

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus - Possibly the most architectural stunning building in India, Victoria Terminus Railway Station, now CST, sees a record of six hundred and sixty thousand footfalls daily, making it the busiest station in Mumbai.
    At dawn, the CST station also serves as the city’s largest newspaper sorting area.
  • Sassoon Dock -…
What's Included
  • Bottled water
  • Private tour
  • Professional guide
  • Driver and private transport
  • Goods and Services Tax (GST)
  • Postcard
  • Tea and coffee
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Shoe Covers at docks
  • A fruit
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Additional transport cost for pick-up from suburban Mumbai hotels
  • Additional cost for the services of a language guide (besides English)
Additional Information

This 3-hour long tour pioneered by No Footprints gives you an insider’s access into the soul of Mumbai! You will be prive to the backbone of the city’s trade and what makes it truly tick. From exploring community trade and auction of 50 tonnes of fish at the docks, to the sorting of 7 different languages of newspapers; from flower markets to the story…

Location
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
DN Road, Mumbai CST Area
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Tourist37327675963
Oct 7, 2024
Mumbai by Dawn - Radhika was a passionate and knowledgeable tour guide. You can see she really loves Mumbai and wants people to experience the 'real' city.
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Sallybro
Sep 30, 2024
Incredible sights, sounds and smells! - We had a great tour visiting the fish market, flower and produce markets and newspapers. Our guide, Aman Wallia, was so friendly and knowledgeable! It was a great way to be introduced to the amazing Mumbai!
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Paulasn4576ow
Sep 23, 2024
No footprints early morning tour - Worth getting up so early for this experience. The real authentic workers of Mumbai . Krupesh Adi and Tvishi were excellent guides - so funny, informative and their smiles woke everyone up as we set off. They answered everyone’s questions with brilliant answers . So glad I saw the fish market ( and wore the overshoes provided!) the fruit veg and flower market and the morning papers being sorted as Mumbai dawn broke . Definitely one of our highlights of India
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Relax03187594894
Sep 23, 2024
Mumbai Magic - What an exquisite insight into some of the lesser seen parts of the city. The fish market and Koli community was a highlight. Tvishi was a well informed, professional and fun guide. She also added interesting insights into Indian daily life.
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Liz_s
Sep 14, 2024
Get up early and do it - Memorable trip with the lovely Nimisha . Most unusual trip in the dark hours of dawn. Fish market fascinating story of their family roles and the tough women. First fresh spice market experienced lovely smells and colours. Flowers and vegetables great. Shows many props lifestyles. This company first to start this trip a few years back. Now other tour ops trying to copy this trip. Knowledge, stories and content will not be surpassed. One of the best life experiences ever.
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J0burggirl
Sep 11, 2024
Fascinating experience - This tour was recommended by our hotel. It was a fascinating insight into Mumbai. We visited the fish market at the docks, newspaper sorting, the vegetable market and flower market. It was not a tour where you sit in a bus and look at monuments. It a completely immersive experience. Sights, sounds, a taste of fruit or tea, smells from fish to flowers. It was amazing how walking some of the same streets later was a completely different experience as the first shift had ended and it was on to a different batch of people and purposes. Our guide KP was warm and friendly and a weaver of stories. It was a thoroughly enjoyable experience that we would highly recommend.
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Sunshine45161609908
Sep 9, 2024
A delightful and emotional assault on all your senses As you tour the working heart of the city - A quite exceptional tour. Hard to put into words. No high architecture just the human beating heart of the city. Working folk keeping the city alive in all its basic needs. No automation here just centuries of manual skills and tradition. The pre-dawn start is worth it see the first fish catches of the day expertly thrown ashore and auctioned on the spot, moving through the early dawn with all the people supplying the basics of life. Heaving, bustling, hard but resilient and fundamentally happy and accommodating of each other. A delightful and emotional assault on all your senses.
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Megamart70
Sep 5, 2024
Fascinating insight into Mumbai - We were picked up and taken around markets and sites of Mumbai early morning and leant about what goes on in the city every day before most of the city wakes up. Totally interesting and informative. Namrata was so knowledgeable and could answer all our questions and gave us an understanding of a city we would not have access to as visitors had we not done this trip. She tailored the tour to our interests and made sure we were comfortable. A fantastic experience.
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Connector10549944022
Aug 31, 2024
Mumbai at Dawn - I had a great experience my guide had extensive knowledge of the attractions and was also friendly. The wake up time was worth it
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Chrischo91
Aug 17, 2024
Best Mumbai Tour! - Adi was such a great guide! Really can recommend this incredible tour to see how the city of dreams awakens and the local communities do the best to keep the city vibrant and alive!
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From $37
up to 15 guests
1 Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).