Kamis, 22 Desember 2011

Gorai beach attractions mumbai (Bombay) India 2011

 Gorai is a abode leadership the North - western quantum of Mumbai, India. Gorai is accessed larger generally by a transfer safari the Manori Creek which separates Gorai from the island of Salsette or incommensurable by the overland crossing buttoned up Bhayander.

 Gorai lies on a peninsula projecting wipe out the north - west of the Salsette island. This used to act as a separate island called the Dharavi Island, blot out the Malad Creek & Manori Creek joining up calm and connecting to the Vasai Creek on ice the Ghodbunder Creek. However, cloak the apartment of the railways over the Ghodbunder Creek, and ensconce following urbanization and reclamation, the Ghodbunder Creek is mostly gone, and the Dharavi Island is any more moneyless to a peninsula of the Salsette Island.

 Gorai is bordered by the villages of Manori and Uttan, etc., all on the former Dharavi Island. Dharavi Island is divided between the north, which flood mark the District of Thane and the City of Mira Road - Bhayandar, and the south, which is included imprint the Mumbai Suburban District and is cut of the Mumbai.

 Gorai is confessed for its beaches and East Indian proletariat, though domination recent times the beaches keep turn out polluted. Till the 1980s Gorai was recognized for its clean beaches and palm trees. However ensconce the extension network pollution around Mumbai, the Arabian Sea is unfit for stinking rich although evident is less polluted at Gorai than at the other beaches magnetism Mumbai.

 Gorai has a immense East Indian multitude. East Indians are Roman Catholic who were proselytised by the Portuguese when they arrived here reputation the 16th century. Gorai has three churches. The oldest one, Reis Magos or the Three Magi, on the banks of the Vairalla Tank fame the residence of Culvem located on the north border of Gorai, was built by the Franciscan missionaries between 1595 & 1602 [Meersman, 1971, p. 204]. The newer fold temple, and named abutting the Three Magi, was built string 1810 [Hull, Vol. I, p. 10], and is located about three - cantonment of a mile to the south of the cursed, autochthonous fold sanctuary. The questioning is the Infant Jesus Chapel built near the ruins of the senescent sanctuary.

 Gorai has a substantial and controversial refuse dumping ground. The Essel Apple amusement park has been set up in part of Gorai, by expropriating lands from the East Indians without a fair compensation and in the teeth of their protests. Gorai is also the site for an ' Special Economic Zone ' proposed by Esselworld that would take over all these villages, indeed, nearly the entire Dharavi Island.

 Gorai still enjoys its calm, laid back charm quite in contrast to the fast paced life of the city just on the other banks of the creek. Bullock carts are still in use here and the area suffers from a water shortage.

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