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Final entries.  Days 15 and 16 Day 15 Today we picked up a local guide who is originally from the far eastern state of Manipur . It is almost above Myanmar-Burma. You can see that her features look more south Asian than what we normally think of a traditional Indian look. It’s going to take us awhile to get to our destination! Mumbai traffic. In the heart of Mumbai, tuktuks are forbidden. They can be used in the suburbs. To get an idea of how extensive the suburbs are, it can take her 2 hours by train to get to our hotel! Cricket players . Indians are very serious about cricket  Ticket Nice coffee shop where we stopped to use the bathroom! A few of us had to buy something so we could use it. If you’ve read Katherine Boo’s Beyond the Beautiful Forevers , you know about the illegal slum by the airport. Today we visited the Dharavi slum where about 1 million people live. It is legal slum. That means that they pay taxes and get service— electricity and water. Notice I didn’t say...