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Dharavi Tour & Pottery Workshop

Name: Dharavi Tour & Pottery Workshop
Brand: Wonderplan
Rating: 5.0 (63 reviews)

★★★★★ 5.0 (63 reviews)

3 hours

About This Experience

Step beyond the headlines and explore the real Dharavi on our Dharavi Slum Tour with local residents who call it home.
Led by a responsible travel company, this tour directly supports local development initiatives.

Visitors experience a wide range of these business activities: recycling, pottery-making, leather tanning, poppadom-making, etc.

We’ll also visit the residential areas of Dharavi.

Kumbharwada is one of Dharavi’s oldest and most compelling communities, home to its thriving pottery industry. Spend a few hours with us learning about the community’s rich history and how it became the hub of pottery making in Mumbai. You will see where the material comes from, how it’s prepared, moulded into shape and finally baked.

We will also get hands-on, visiting a local potter’s workshop—where we’ll get a general overview of pottery making and have a go at wheel throwing and making a piece of Kumbharwada art.

Tour Itinerary

2h 30m

Known to many as ‘one of the largest slums in Asia’, we prefer to think of Dharavi as Mumbai’s beating heart. Through our educational walking tours, visitors experience a wide range of these business activities: recycling, pottery-making, embroidery, bakery, soap factory, leather tanning, poppadom-making and many more. We’ll also visit the residential areas and get a glimpse of street art in Dharavi. People from all over India have come to live in Dharavi, making it a microcosm of India. This diversity is apparent in the murals, temples, mosques, churches and pagodas that stand side by side.

20 min

Guests can enjoy a soft drink and learn more about how funds are re-invested back into the community.

What's Included

Included

Local English speaking guide
Water / Cold Drink

Not Included

Hotel/Residence pickup and drop-off
Gratuities

Meeting Point & Logistics

Start Point

We meet at the main entrance and ticket office on the West side of the station. To check if you are in the right spot, verify that V-Jai Restaurant and Bakery is opposite and Third Wave Coffee is diagonally opposite.

Start Point

There are four entrances to Churchgate Station, including two subways. The first photo shows the station as you approach from Colaba, and where the entrance is. Once inside the station, we meet in front of “M/S Maa Tara Enterprises Multipurpose Stall,” located just opposite the ticket counter.