Every four years the kumbh mela is the main event within the calendar of Hindu festivities: millions of pilgrims gather for the ritual collective bath in the Ganges.
The event every 12 years is even more important and takes the name Maha Kumbh Mela and is held in Allahbad.
An endless crowd gathers on the banks where the Yumana meets the Ganges.
Pilgrims, Sadhu and peasants pray, eat, sleep, live waiting for the predestined days for washing.
In 2013, in the days of the so-called main royal bath, there was talk of 30 million people maybe.
35. A record, the greatest gathering of mankind.
It’s an indescribable sight to take your breath away.
More than 80 million people attended the 8-week event.
The pilgrims are collected in a space, divided into 14 sectors, that is lost from sight, the dimensions of which can be understood only from the top of the bridge that connects the site of Kumbh Mela to the station of Allahbad.
A real tailor-made city is set up, covered with tended fields that welcome pilgrims, Sadhu, baba and naga baba belonging to numerous congregations.

An experience for which it is difficult to find the words.