Queen's Necklace
Night lights.
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A 3-kilometre seafront promenade along a natural bay in South Mumbai, built on land reclaimed from the sea in 1940; it curves from Nariman Point in the south to Girgaon Chowpatty beach in the north, facing the Arabian Sea. It is nicknamed the «Queen's Necklace» because at night its row of streetlights, seen from Malabar Hill, looks like a string of pearls around the bay, and behind it stands one of the world's largest groups of Art Deco buildings. Mumbaikars sit on its long sea wall to watch the sunset and the waves, and walk and jog here in the mornings; at its northern end, Chowpatty beach has street-food stalls, mostly vegetarian. It's free and always open, best at sunset and after dark. During the monsoon, June to September, high waves crash against the wall in a spectacle locals love.
Night lights.
Along the front.
At its end.
South Mumbai, from Nariman Point to Chowpatty Beach
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