This is in JW Marriott hotel in Mumbai during our lunch with some nice fellow Indians hubby was working with. The food was so great and of course they have an extensive collection of international dishes that I missed terribly that time.

Below are some snapshots I took around Marriott hotel. They have beautiful landscaping of the area, which is along the beach.

Frontier trivia the day:

Pakistani maps continue to show its Junagadh claim in Indian Gujarat State

This is the lovely hotel lounge on the ground floor. I like its design and the elevated area. It was pretty nice. I had been used a bit being inside that I didn’t notice the smell of the overall atmosphere. I had just been down here for a few times, and sometimes to the hotel shop on the opposite direction but I didn’t buy anything other than postcards and stationeries that I still have until now. They were my precious remembrance.

Frontier trivia the day:

the total population sex ratio of Indian population is 1.064 males for every female, in 2006 estimate.

The blurry and grayish shot like the weather of the beach below the hotel through the window. This was just a fraction of the people that would eventually pack the beach’s brown sand enjoying life, and me enjoying watching them when I had nothing else to do. After all, I was there on vacation, and as a tourist to learn about them.

Frontier trivia the day:

80.5% of Indians are Hindus, with 13.4% of the population Muslim, making India home to the third-largest Muslim population in the world after Indonesia and Pakistan.

The hotel pool. A shot taken from our hotel room window. It was nice but I didn’t even once use it. To see the blue from the window was enough for me.

Frontier trivia the day:

Indian life revolved around agriculture and allied activities in small villages, where the overwhelming majority of Indians live.

This is on the other side of the view. I was still in the hotel premises; I was just sitting on the concrete gate that was made a seat from the inside since it is high from the outside. To get to this place I would pass through an outdoor dining. I still have to learn to love the Indian food though. During this time the weather was good, windy with respect to its being on the beach, and it did not rain. I was glad. It was good to come outside though sometimes I would have to hold my breath.

Frontier trivia the day:

India has more arable land than any country except the United States, and more water area than any country except Canada and the United States.

On my second day in India I went down from the hotel to the beach that was just next to it. Hubby was at work so I was alone and I treasured the moment. You must have known that India follows China in numbers of its population, right? In 2006, there were more than 1 billion people in India, and most of it is packed in Mumbai or Bombay. In Juhu area where we were at, I would see thousands of people on this beach every afternoon. It was kind of fun though for me, for if there will be no people going there just to stroll around, it would be a lonely beach, since I just observe only one man swimming there. This was early yet so there were not much people lazing around.

Frontier trivia of the day:

India occupies 2.4% of the world’s land area and supports over 1.7% of the population.

This was our room in the hotel. It was a pretty nice room and with satisfactory service. One of the housekeeping staffs I came to be friends with. She is a Christian too, one of the 2.3% of the population. Yeah, why did I assume Indians are all Hindus and Muslims. I learned a lot from her. Cultures, they are beautiful and so unique they are worth learning. And I just love that. I took it as a privilege to be there.

Frontier trivia of the day:

the four major families of languages, Indo-European, Dravidian, Austro-Asiatic, and Tibeto-Burman as well as language isolate, the Nihali language are spoken in India. Only the continent of Africa exceeds the linguistic, genetic and cultural diversity of the nation India. (Wiki)

On the other side of the garbage, in another corner of our room was the window overlooking the beach. You see the sky was gray, as gray as the waters, but it was an overall good scene and natural view to watch every afternoon after hubby’s work and for me everyday while in the Inn.

Frontier trivia of the day:

India has more than 2000 ethnic groups, and every major religion is represented.