Girgaum Chowpatty
The city beach at the end of Marine Drive, where Ganpati goes into the sea every September and the bhelpuri stalls never close.
- Where
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 18.9510, 72.8110
Get the Girgaum Chowpatty stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Girgaum Chowpatty. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Maharashtra volume with your photos and a note.
Near Girgaum Chowpatty
Taraporewala Aquarium 1.0 km
India's oldest aquarium, on Marine Drive, with a glass tunnel you walk through.
Mani Bhavan 1.0 km
The house on Laburnum Road Gandhi stayed in between 1917 and 1934, now his museum.
Marine Drive 1.5 km
Three kilometres of curved seafront whose streetlights earned it the name the Queen's Necklace.
Babulnath 1.7 km
A Shiva temple on a hillock above Girgaum Chowpatty, up a hundred steps or a lift.
Banganga Tank 1.9 km
A freshwater tank of 1127 a hundred metres from the sea, fed by an underground spring nobody has traced.
Mumba Devi Temple 2.0 km
The goddess the city is named for, moved twice and now in a lane off Zaveri Bazaar.
Chor Bazaar 2.2 km
A century and a half of secondhand everything, from ship fittings to gramophone horns, off Mohammed Ali Road.
Jama Masjid, Mumbai 2.2 km
The city's principal mosque, built over a tank that is still under the prayer hall.
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Questions
Where is Girgaum Chowpatty?
Girgaum Chowpatty is in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Taraporewala Aquarium (1.0 km), Mani Bhavan (1.0 km), Marine Drive (1.5 km).
How do I get the Girgaum Chowpatty stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Girgaum Chowpatty and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Maharashtra volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Girgaum Chowpatty before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Maharashtra volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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