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Reality Tours and Travel - Day Tours

Unique Business Service Centre, Akber House 1st Floor | Nowroji Fardonji Road, Opp Bademiya Restaurant, Colaba, Mumbai (Bombay) 400 039, India
+91 9820822253
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Owner description: Visit one of Asia's biggest slums and other rarely visited places in Mumbai with the only tour company that reinvests your money into the community.... more » Owner description: Visit one of Asia's biggest slums and other rarely visited places in Mumbai with the only tour company that reinvests your money into the community. Reality Tours & Travel was founded with two main objectives: to break down the negative attitudes that many people have towards people from the less developed communities AND to play a crucial role in achieving real social change in these areas by putting money back into the less developed communities. With this aim we started the Dharavi Tours 2006. We pledged at this time that 80% of the profits after tax from our tours would be donated to local NGOs. From May 2007, we decided to get involved ourselves and set up a Community Centre. To increase the social impact we founded the NGO Reality Gives in 2009 when we opened the Muskaan Kindergarten in Dharavi. At the moment, Reality Gives activities are almost entirely funded by Reality Tours. Since 2010 we expanded our tour program. We want to give a deeper insight into Mumbai, it’s all day live, it’s culture, it’s people and contradictions. For this we set up different tours: Market Tour, Mumbai by night Tour, Public Transport Tour, Bicycle Tour and a Village Tour. We are not just another tour company pretending to be socially responsible. We genuinely don’t think that it is right to do “Slum Tours“ and profit from it. When we carry out the tours, the sentiments of the people in these areas are what is most important. We believe in creating a social impact through our tours and through listening to the residents of these areas and finding out what change they want to see in their communities. « less
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State College, Pennsylvania
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 22 May 2013 NEW

The Dharavi tour through Reality Tours isn't just another attraction in the city. Words cannot describe how positive and moving this experience was, especially as a Westerner. The impressions of what a slum is - especially Dharavi, were completely skewed compared to what we saw up close during our tour. Reality Tours works hard to break down those negative stigmas... More

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Hamilton, New Zealand
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 20 May 2013 NEW via mobile

Wow!! This company an their tours are amazing! The Dharvi slum is an eye opener and the guides are so knowledgeable. You will learn so much about this tight knit community and its so awesome seeing what the money goes towards. This is the best thing we done in Mumbai. Highly recommend doing a tour with these guys!

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Saint Paul, Mn
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 12 May 2013

although I have been in slums around the world, I felt the spirit and the struggle of the Dharavi slum in a close and personal way because of this excellent tour. I recommend Reality Tours and Travel wholeheartedly.

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Heerlen, The Netherlands
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 11 May 2013

This ethical and respectful tour of the biggest slum in Asia is a reality check. Bringing an important yet sober positive perspective to live in the slums, our guide Deya did a wonderful job at highlighting the benefits and harships of living in the slum. An aspect of Mumbai that even the locals do not venture to brush with, but... More

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New York City, New York, USA
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 10 May 2013

The slum walking tour of Dharavi (featured in Slumdog Millionare) is by far one of the best experiences in Mumbai. Here you get a chance to understand life in one of the most crowed slums in the world. You see (and smell) the conditions people live and work in. The guides are locals who explain both the history of Dharavi... More

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Bucharest, Romania
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 2 May 2013

I took the tour (Dharavi Long Tour) between 2pm-6pm. It was an amazing experience. Sunny (the guide) was very friendly and he explained to us the social aspects of slum, the daily life of people, how they organized and so on. Before entering into the slum you might have a feeling of not being safe inside but after couple of... More

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Austin, Texas
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed 1 May 2013

We signed up for the bicycle tour the day after we arrived as a way to get to now the part of the city where we were staying. The tour started at 6.15 am, and was a good way to see Mumbai waking up. We went to the main sights - train station, Crawford Market, fish market and had a... More

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Twickenham, London
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 29 April 2013

Looking through the reviews before posting this I was struck by how similar all the reviews were: - Wasn't sure about going - Saw the 'good' side of the slums - Thoroughly enjoyed it Went with my wife and daughter and totally endorse these views. A morning which will long live in the memory. There are a number of tour... More

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Denver, Colorado
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 27 April 2013

I have done two tours with this company in the past week during my stay in Mumbai. The first was of the Dharavi slum - an experience which blew away all the stereotypes, provided a real insight into a city within a city that is vastly different from anything I know, and which proved ultimately uplifting. The second tour was... More

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Manchester, United Kingdom
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 26 April 2013

We visited Mumbai for the third time in March / April 2013, and, as we had three days there this time, decided to extend our horizons by getting deeper into the heart of the city than the more normal touristy areas of our previous visits. We booked this tour as the 'long' version to the Dharavi slums, which involved a... More

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