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| Marine Drive Mumbai | Image Resource : flickr.com |
Marine Drive is a 4.3-kilometre-long highway in the South Mumbai. It is a 'C'-shaped six-byway concrete road along the coast. The road byway from Nariman Point to Babulnath and Malabar Hill. Marine Drive is situated over recycled land facing west-south-west. A cakewalk lies parallel to this road. Marine Drive is also known as the Queen's Necklace because, if seen at night from an elevated point anywhere along the drive, the street lights resemble a string of pearls in a necklace. In 2012, the Municipal Corporation of Mumbai announced that the entire road would be resurfaced, 72 years after it was originally laid.
The official name of this road is Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Road. The cakewalked is lined with palm trees. At the northern end of Marine Drive is Chowpatty Beach. This beach famed for its Bhel puri ,shevpuri,local snack food. Many restaurants also line this stretch of the road. Further down this road lies Walkeshwar, a wealthy neighbourhood of the city, also home to the Governor of Maharashtra.
Most of the buildings which were built by wealthy Parsis sport an art deco look that was popular in the 1920s and 1930s. Real estate prices along the esplanade are high. Many hotels dot the drive, most prominent among them being the 5-star Oberoi hotel, The Intercontinental, Hotel Marine Plaza, Sea Green Hotel and a few other smaller hotels. Marine Drive is the preferred connecting road between the central business district located at Nariman Point and the rest of the city.
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| Sunset At Marine Drive | Image Resource : panoramio.com |
