Private Tour of Dhobi Ghat and Dabbawalas in Mumbai
Mumbai, India
Trip Type: Full-day Tours
Duration: 5 hours
Explore some unique traditions of Mumbai by visiting Dhobi Ghat, an open air laundromat in Mumbai, also called the world's largest outdoor laundry and meeting Dabbawala, who delivers freshly-made food in a lunch box (Dabba) from customers' homes to their offices.
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Explore some unique traditions of Mumbai by visiting Dhobi Ghat, an open air laundromat in Mumbai, also called the world's largest outdoor laundry and meeting Dabbawala, who delivers freshly-made food in a lunch box (Dabba) from customers' homes to their offices.You will be picked up at 10am from your hotel for this unique experience and transferred to Mahalaxmi Dhobhi Ghat. Every day thousands kilograms of clothes are washed here for over 120 years. The washers, locally known as Dhobis, work in the open to wash the clothes from Mumbai's hotels and hospitals.There are rows of open-air concrete wash pens, each fitted with its own flogging stone. Called the world's largest outdoor laundry, Dhobi Ghat is a very popular attraction among foreign tourists.
Later your guide will take you to Churchgate to meet with the dabbawallas, a person in India, most commonly in Mumbai, who is part of a delivery system that collects hot food in lunch boxes from the residences of workers in the late morning, delivers the lunches to the workplace, predominantly using bicycles and the railway trains, and returns the empty boxes to the worker's residence that afternoon. Scramble inside of their compartment on the train where the floor is covered with lunch packs of every possible shape and size. The footpath outside Churchgate station serves as a reconnaissance point, where men in Gandhi tops walk through a crowd of dabbas, and take them to offices where hungry executives wait for their daily home-cooked meal delivery. In Mumbai, most office workers prefer to eat home-cooked food in their workplace rather than eat outside at a food stand or at a local restaurant. A number of work-from-home women also supply such home-cooked meals, delivering through the dabbawala network.
Once this tour is over, you will be transferred back to your hotel.
Later your guide will take you to Churchgate to meet with the dabbawallas, a person in India, most commonly in Mumbai, who is part of a delivery system that collects hot food in lunch boxes from the residences of workers in the late morning, delivers the lunches to the workplace, predominantly using bicycles and the railway trains, and returns the empty boxes to the worker's residence that afternoon. Scramble inside of their compartment on the train where the floor is covered with lunch packs of every possible shape and size. The footpath outside Churchgate station serves as a reconnaissance point, where men in Gandhi tops walk through a crowd of dabbas, and take them to offices where hungry executives wait for their daily home-cooked meal delivery. In Mumbai, most office workers prefer to eat home-cooked food in their workplace rather than eat outside at a food stand or at a local restaurant. A number of work-from-home women also supply such home-cooked meals, delivering through the dabbawala network.
Once this tour is over, you will be transferred back to your hotel.
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