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Dharavi Slum Tour

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Dharavi Slum Small Group Tour in Mumbai

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  • 2 hours 30 minutes
  • Mobile ticket
  • Offered in: English

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Overview

See a different side of Mumbai on this 2.5-hour walking tour of the Dharavi slum. Visit the community center and tour the textiles, recycling, and leather tanning businesses run by the local residents. With numbers limited to six on this small-group tour, you’ll enjoy personalized attention from your guide and round-trip transport is available as an optional upgrade. Proceeds from your tour go back into the local community to support a variety of projects on education, health, and livelihood.
  • 2.5-hour walking tour of the Dharavi slum in Mumbai
  • Explore the narrow lanes, shops, and industries of Dharavi with a guide
  • Visit a local community center, funded by proceeds from your tour
  • Learn how this diverse group of people co-exist in tight spaces
  • Travel by train with your guide or make your own way there (if option selected)
  • Upgrade to include round-trip transport by car from Colaba to Dhobi Ghat
  • Small-group tour with a maximum of six people ensures a personalized experience

What's Included

  • Local English Speaking Guide
  • Water / Cold Drink
  • Lunch
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Gratuities

Meeting and Pickup

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  • Reality Tours & Travel
    Shop No. GNMC, A/122, Sant Gora Kumbhar Marg, opposite Eleven Heights, Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar, Subhash Nagar, Kumbhar Wada, Dharavi, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400017, India

    This is where we sit and have a cold drink after walking through Dharavi. Afterwards your tour guide will help you to go wherever you want to go. If you want to return back to Churchgate or catch a local train to another part of Mumbai, he/she will escort you to the train station

What To Expect

Dharavi

2 hours • Admission Ticket Free

Reality Tours & Travel

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Additional Info

  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
  • Out of respect for its residents, no photography is permitted while in the Dharavi slum
  • Please note that dress codes are conservative throughout India; modest and respectful clothing that covers the shoulders and knees is required
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • A significant portion of the proceeds from your local tour operator goes back into the local community to support a variety of educational projects
  • Near public transportation
  • Most travelers can participate
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 99 travelers

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

  • For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
  • If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
  • Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
  • Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.

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Can’t miss experience when in Mumbai
MariaTeresa_P, Feb 2024
Great experience. You gat to see and more importantly understand a side of Mumbai that is not possible to appreciate on your own. The tour is informative and 2 hours go by very quickly. Lela was an outstanding guide and I wish her all the best!
Breathtaking
RHODRI_T, Feb 2024
Fascinating tour! The guide was an amazing person who was from the slum himself, so he really respected the culture and understood it
Excellent tour and very informative !
Caroline_J, Feb 2024
I've had trouble finding good guides in India, that doesn't just show the way, but properly explains everything there is to know about the place. I've learnt so much about people's way of life in Dharavi and more widely how modern India deals with thise urban planning issues.
Great tour
Douglas_G, Jan 2024
This tour is a must do. The guides were fantastic. It was educational and eye-opening. I hope everyone gets a chance to take this tour.
Required tour for your visit to Mumbai
ShekoSusan_K, Dec 2023
This is a must do tour and the guides are well trained and informative. I would do this again next time I am in Mumbai.
Educational tour of the Dharavi Slum
bath4, Dec 2023
Cethan, our guide, provided us with an informative and interesting tour through the Dharavi Slum. We were taken through this community in a respectful manner which allowed us to appreciate the unique community.
Excellent tour
yasmin_g, Oct 2023
This is definitely an eyes opening experience! It has definitely changed what I used to think about slums! See people working, kids happily running around and studying has blown up my mind! I went solo and felt safe! Rishi was my guide and I couldn’t be more thankful! He was very helpful, knowledgeable and kind during the whole tour! He waited for me as I was delayed from my previous tour and was super patient! Also 80% of benefits from this tour goes to a charity that helps young people to learn English! I super recommend this tour and their company, they took me to their office and everyone was super kind!
The most interesting is...
Yves_T, Mar 2023
The most interesting is to go through the slum and to have an idea of the life of the people who stay there. Speaking of the technical problems is not necessary. It's about the same all over the world.
Great Tour
Eleanor_T, Mar 2023
Informative and interesting tour and great that the company gives 80% of profits back to the community!
A fantastic insight
John_S, Aug 2022
A fantastic experience, this allowed me to evaluate how lucky we are and we have no reason to complain for wanting more .
Dharavi walk tour
Nuno_S, Jun 2022
Awesome tour with a great guide (thanks to Jay and his community that are found a great job with school and other needs in the community) A tour that take us to the comercial area where we can see the recycling center, leather manufacturing, bakeries, pottery and residential areas. Many people don’t know how important are these people and community to the rest of the city. A must see and understand Highly recommend to everyone. Also we are helping these communities to build s better future for their families Greetings from New Zealand
Humbling experience
Neil_C, May 2022
A tour delivered by Javed a local from the Dharavi community. An articulate young man with a genuine understanding of the community. Introduced us the industrial enterprises and different residential communities within the Slum. Couldn’t recommend highly enough!
The chance of a lifetime@
shannoconnell, Jan 2020
A must-do tour if you want to understand Mumbai its culture, peoples and history. Cooking lunch with a Dharsvi local was the highlight of our 3 days on Mumbai and our tour guides were excellent
Dharavi
Peter_H, Jan 2020
Our guide Suraj was excellent, he gave us a really interesting tour and answered all our many questions. We would definitely recommend any visitors to Mumbai to take the Dharavi tour.
Humbling but really inspiring
Susan_R, Jan 2020
Really enjoyed this trip with our lovely young guide Hitesh who is a resident of Dharavi himself. Learnt the history of the huge community of Dharavi, how its progressed over the years and saw the positive side of the industry that happens here. Fantastic, authentic shop for the leather goods produced here - the makers have started their own Dharavi brand. We arrived on a festival day - lots of music and smiley children. Really like the fact that reality Tours pour money back into community projects - we saw one such in action. Young men being taught communication skills for the workplace. A great tour, would thoroughly recommend. I also think that Reality attracts like-minded individuals - we had a lovely group.
Interesting tour, excellent guide!
zdenkob317, Jan 2020
Everything was as described in the itinerary. We did not take photos but memories are still alive: narrow alleys, children playing on the common playground, men sewing brand name jeans in dark rooms, mixing colour for textil with their own hands or ironing using a machine with open gas flame inside...This tour is simply "must do" during your stay in Bombay!
Superb
Jockenissen, Dec 2019
We has boojsd the wrong date but they helpes us anyway and gave us the best tour we ever been on. Thank you, great company!!
Dharavi tour in Mumbai
Lena_S, Dec 2019
Divya was an excellent and most knowledgeable tour guide for Dharavi. She was very funny and also hospitable. Good luck x
Eye opening and for a good cause
903ankurb, Oct 2019
I was initially apprehensive of going on a tour of Dharavi, because I was conscious of not being disruptive to residents. I was glad to hear that the tour operator puts 80% of its profits into the community projects in the area itself, with a lot of tour guides having lived and come up from Dharavi. It can definitely feel claustrophobic at times because of the narrow alleys and commercial locations; but it’s all worth looking at to understand how this corner of society isn’t cared for. We also took the Street Art was extension, which touches areas not in the main tour and is highly recommended for some stunning artwork covering entire buildings. The tour ends at their gift shop / office which I was initially iffy about, but it has genuinely cool gifts made within Dharavi from recycled materials such as paper and saris, which was quite fairly priced and went to fund their community projects too. We were never hard sold anything at any point, in fact, that didn’t even show us the souvenir area and left it to us to discover ourselves! After being hard sold again and again in India, we appreciated this a lot. Loved our guide Shailesh who did both halves of the tour and was very knowledgeable about the tour and accommodating
wow
Cosmopolitan585173, Oct 2019
especially the art street tour unique and wonderful I recommand that to anyone who like art phenomenal
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