Page 445 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide - India

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Coastal dwellings have sloping These women from Mumbai’s
roofs made of tiles to deflect the small Koli fishing community are
heavy rains during the monsoon. dressed in bright festival finery.

Flowers are a common form of
Small boats moored in the adornment and are picked each morning
Konkan backwaters by girls and women for their hair.

Konkan Coast
The narrow coastal strip
that runs along the
Arabian Sea is sheltered
by the verdant slopes
of the Western Ghats.
This region can be
explo r ed either by
road or on the Konkan
Railway (see p438).

Monsoon
clouds herald
the onset of
the monsoon,
when the coast
is lashed by
torrential rain
The Western Ghats, or the Sahyadri Range, from June to
run in an unbroken line along the coast. early September.

Boat building is done by expert artisans,
Dried fish is eaten during the Local fish markets sell a who repair old boats using traditional
monsoon, when heavy rains large variety of freshly methods, as well as build new ones from
prevent fishing. caught produce. locally procured wood.

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