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Level 2 – Pre-intermediate
The biggest festival on Earth
The Indian Maha Kumbh Mela Festival takes place every twelve years and it is the most important spiritual event in the Hindu calendar. It is also the biggest congregation of people on Earth. The festival lasts six weeks and during this time an estimated seventy million Hindus will bathe in the River Ganges near Allahabad in northern India.
Millions of Hindu families from all over the world travel to India for the festival. Hindus believe that if they bathe in the Ganges at the point where two other rivers join it, they will clean themselves of their sins and they will have a better chance of going to heaven. On 24th January, the holiest day of the festival, millions of Hindus bathe in the river.
The Festival organisers work very hard! They have built eighty kilometres of new roads, seventeen temporary bridges and more than 20000 toilets for the event! The Festival grounds cover 1400 hectares. The pilgrims drink 45 million litres of water every day!
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