Marine Drive

A stroll down the Marine Drive is the best way to discover Mumbai, during your travel to Mumbai. This winding stretch of road with tall buildings on one side and sea on the other extends from the concrete jungle of Nariman Point, Mumbai's Manhattan, and the leafy green slopes of Malabar hill. Due to its curved shape and many streetlights, it was once called the Queen's Necklace.

A popular sea front, Marine Drive is also the main thoroughfare linking Malabar Hills to the southernmost points of Colaba, Cuffe Parade, Nariman Point and Fort. Marine Drive is also one of Mumbai's busiest roads, an important artery for the heavy suburban traffic heading downtown. Vehicles flow continually past the two-mile stretch, past love-stuck couples, hawkers and sellers, gleeful children and babies in perambulators. Like other seafronts, this is where most of south Mumbai comes to breathe in some fresh air.

Overlooking the Marine Drive are the beautiful Kamala Nehru Park - atop Malabar Hills with wonderfully cut hazes and roomy walkways; and the Hanging Gardens - built during the early 1880s over Mumbai's main reservoir at the top of the Malabar Hills. Marine Drive is a must-visit when you travel to Mumbai.