INDIA

Rickshaws, fabrics, colourfully religious images of a thousand colours everywhere…The incense smell gives you the welcome in the International Airport of Mumbai.

Traffic is very busy, you can take a walk through Bandra street which is lit by this huge market of accessories, fabrics, cheap clothes, shoes, bags, etc.

The first few days here, I took the time to take just few rides by rickshaw so I could feel closer to the real India.
India is packed with colour, food, spices, cows and chivas. In the streets you can get the best Masala Chai (tea) in the world, because obviously, it’s the original one, for just 5 rupees.
You can also get curries of all flavours and colours imaginable.
India Gate is located in the downtown, where there are lots of streets for shopping, you can get everything you look for, from wooden Ganeshas to clothes and powder paint with Indian design stamps for the body.

India has lots of contrasts, is very busy and crowed by the traffic in the city, but also its pretty relaxing and chilled out, people here its very friendly, and you can hear music by everywhere in the streets mixed with the sound of millions of horn sounds from the traffic in the city in the rush hour.


India Nightlife is very alternative; you can find lots of different scenes. Places like “Blue Frog” offer different music every night, the party officially ends at 1:30 am because they have a restriction on bars and dancing places. But that’s when you can go to the famous house parties… Yeah that’s right, everyone goes to someone’s house and spend the night partying there till 9 or 10 in the morning.

India’s music scene is famous because of their Bollywood scene, which is pretty strong, but India also has different music like hip-hop, indie rock and alternative music like techno, psychedelic trance and trance. India has one of the biggest scenes of psychedelic trance music in the world.

Mumbai, Taj Mahal, Goa, Delhi… India has lots of world icons including Gandhi, Shiva, Siddhartha, Buddha, incense, curry, spices, elephants, karmas, mysticism…India has lot to offer, beautiful beaches, beautiful people, beautiful culture and very strong beliefs.

We had busy days in India, because we had photo shoot sessions, radio interviews and we had a brunch at Zenzi Club - a special brunch organized to show a photo exhibition of the pictures that us the Smirnoff Ten had taken since we started this trip, and the brunch was great, with a big variety of Indian snacks and food, and green apple martinis, Djane Pearl from Mumbai span nice progressive trance.


Also Paul Van Dyk was playing at a special party sponsored by The Smirnoff Experience, the place was completely packed and. They had a variety of martinis, and vodka drinks

I have always wanted to go to India, and as well India was exactly what I was expecting, I had an incredible experience here, and for sure I will come back, because there’s still lots of stuff that I haven’t seen before here, I really loved India.