The next party on the streets of Mumbai was Ganesh Chaturthi, an extravagant festival from Sept. 15-25. Like Gokulashtami, those dates vary from year to year depending on the lunar calendar. Every single day for 10 days, thousands of people wait in long lines to worship Ganesh, the elephant-headed god. Many stages housing many Ganesh statues are built all over the city to accommodate the crowds. Every evening, until about 11pm, the celebration went into the streets with drumming and dancing—causing traffic to be even WORSE than normal…I know, how can that even be possible? But there you go. Anyway, the last day all the Ganeshes are paraded down the street towards the ocean where they are submerged and given back to nature. The parades were fun but at a certain point I felt we were more of an attraction than the Ganeshes were just because we weren`t Indian. That was OK since so most people smiled and waved at us. And every time we stopped to talk to 1 or 2 Indians, we ended up being surrounded by 20 more! The only bad thing was that it made us more of a target for the tikka powder bombs. As you can see, that`s how I ended up red, pink, orange and yellow. Yes, I had to scrub parts of my hair 4 times to get it all out but hey, all those colors made me even prettier, no? :-)
Click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5YhkhkT9RU to honor Ganesh right.
Click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnyqxuTL7Sc to ride with us towards the ocean.
Click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcQWAkCpNW0 to say farewell to Ganesh.
The next party on the streets of Mumbai was Ganesh Chaturthi, an extravagant festival from Sept. 15-25. Like Gokulashtami, those dates vary from year to year depending on the lunar calendar. Every single day for 10 days, thousands of people wait in long lines to worship Ganesh, the elephant-headed god. Many stages housing many Ganesh statues are built all over the city to accommodate the crowds. Every evening, until about 
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