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Level 3 – Intermediate
The biggest festival on Earth
Every twelve years, millions of Hindus assemble in the Indian city of Allahabad to attend the Kumbh Mela Festival, which is the most important spiritual event in the Hindu calendar. Pilgrims come from all over the world to bathe in the Ganges at a sacred site in northern India. The climax, on the holiest day of the Festival, is when millions of people bathe in the river. By the end of the festival tens of millions of people will have visited the site.
Hindus believe that if they bathe at the sacred site of the Ganges during the Festival, they will wash away their past sins. This will enable them to go to heaven and will interrupt the cycle of death and rebirth.
The festival grounds cover over 1400 hectares and the organisers provide an estimated forty-five million litres of water a day. Recently they have built eighty kilometres of new roads, seventeen temporary bridges and more than 20,000 toilets!
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