Every 12 years, millions of people come to the city of Allahabad in India for the Maha Kumbh Mela festival, which also means, Grand Pitcher Festival. The religious festival is held at the point where the Ganges and Yamuna rivers meet with a third river.
"Officials believe that over the next two months as many as 100 million people will pass through the temporary city that covers an area larger than Athens on a wide sandy river bank. That would make it larger even than previous festivals," reports The Huffington Post.
The BBC reported that in 2001 more than 40 million people gathered on the major bathing day of the festival making it the biggest human gathering on
One of the most memorable things for festival goers is when the the ascetics or Naga Sadhus went into the water saying religious chants, many only wearing marigold garlands and coered in ash, reported The BBC.
The festival lasts for 55 days which is determined by an astrological calculation.
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