Mumbai Dharavi Slum Walking Tour - Local Resident Guide (Pottery Workshop Option)

Discover everyday life in Dharavi
with a local guide

Meet your guide at Third Wave Coffee, the meeting point, and walk into Dharavi. Interact with real residents, see the community spirit and hardworking people of Dharavi first-hand, and learn that Dharavi is a thriving industrial hub with an estimated economic output of about 1 billion US dollars a year.

See the Slumdog Millionaire filming location and alleyway industries

Pass the place where Slumdog Millionaire was filmed and visit small-scale industries run in tight spaces, including leather workshops, soap manufacturers and dye makers. Walking through the narrow alleys, you will also see bakeries, schools, hospitals and houses.

Discover residents' ingenuity at the market and recycling sites

Head to the market with your guide to learn why plastic recycling matters to the Dharavi community, and see how vegetable oil cans are recycled in innovative ways. Watching Muslim residents make a shrine for Hindus, you can feel the community spirit of the area.

Add a pottery session or a vegetarian lunch, depending on the option

With the pottery workshop option, visit a local potter's workshop, get a brief overview of pottery making, then throw on the wheel yourself to make a piece of traditional Kumbharwada pottery. With the vegetarian lunch option, finish the tour with a meal at a local family's home, eating the local way, sitting on the floor and eating with your hands.

※ The itinerary may change depending on local conditions.
※ The tour ends near New Sai Multispeciality Hospital & Research Centre, not at the meeting point.