- Arriving in India -

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Mumbai

Dharavi Slum tour with Nick from Mystical Mumbai

Our Mumbai guesthouse put us in touch with Nick from Mystical Mumbai Tours and we couldn't have been luckier. He gave us an incredible insiders look at the workings (and entrepreneurial nature) of the slums where he lives and runs a NGO amongst just about everything else you can think of!

Before we headed into the slums we stopped for India's ubiquitous, compulsory and delicious Chai. I had some questions about the scoldingly hot and ever-so-sweet beverage and as usual the conversation meandered...

This tour was nothing short of fantastic. If you haven't got time to listen to the full tour but want to jump around and find out about the various enterprises in the slum here's a rough guide of what we cover with Nick:

~3 mins - The Plastic Recycling Process

~11 mins - Metal Barrel & Can Recycling

~22 mins - The Cardboard Box Flipping Business

~23.5 mins - Talking about Slumdog Millionaire

~26.5 mins - More About Nick's NGO

~28 mins - The slum infrastructure; water & electricity

~ 31 mins - Cloth & Material Dying

~ 33 mins - The 100Kg Bar of Soap!

~ 40 mins - All Things Leather

~ 71 mins - Clay Pot Production