CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Mumbai it runs 41 km to Mumbai; allow about 44 min of riding. The stops in between: Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of, back through Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of and back through Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 20 km this is Konkan Coast Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Mumbai is a city that never quite stands still, and for a rider the first lesson is that the road belongs to everyone. Taxis, buses, rickshaws, scooters, handcarts, cows and pedestrians share every lane, and the horn is a language, used for greeting, warning and complaint. More than twelve million people live in the city proper, and many more in the surrounding region, making it one of the largest urban areas on earth. It was called Bombay until 1995.
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Mumbai is where the day begins. Next is Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus.
Mumbai's great railway terminus is a cathedral built for engines. It was designed by the English architect Frederick William Stevens and completed in the late 1880s as Victoria Terminus, named for the queen who was also Empress of India, and its mixture of Victorian Gothic and Indian motifs is one of the most flamboyant of the age. Domes, spires, pointed arches, carved peacocks and lions, stained glass and stone gargoyles give the whole building a theatrical quality. It was renamed in honour of the Maratha king Shivaji in the 1990s, and is now on the World Heritage list. Locals still call it VT.
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Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus comes up 6 km in.
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At least 16 km in you reach Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus. Next is Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of.
Mumbai built itself a seafront in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the result is one of the most unusual architectural neighbourhoods on earth. The Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles, inscribed by UNESCO in 2018, are two separate groups of buildings, facing each other across the Oval Maidan, a big open cricket ground in the south of the city. On one side are the Gothic Revival buildings of the British Raj: the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, which was Victoria Terminus, the High Court, the University and the Rajabai Clock Tower. On the other are the Art Deco cinemas, hotels and apartment blocks of the 1930s, along Marine Drive.
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Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of, about halfway.
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Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of sits at 24 km, about halfway. Next is back through Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of.
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back through Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of comes up 29 km in. Next is back through Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus.
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35 km in you reach back through Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus.
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back through Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, late in the day. Next is Mumbai.
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The route ends here after 41 km.
Mumbai → Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus → Mumbai is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.