Another popular spot should be on the banks of the Yamuna river next to Agra's Taj Mahal.
As for the Yamuna river, long the main source of the city's drinking water, it is clinically dead.
The Gaurs have around 5, 000 acres around the circuit and the Yamuna Expressway.
On the first day of the 55-day Hindu festival, an estimated 8 million people bathed at the merging point of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers.
Andrew Turner has built the boat and is ferrying pilgrims for free at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, where the festival is held.
The incident took place on the main day of bathing on Sunday when 30 million pilgrims took a dip at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers.
The authorities have set up tented camps along the banks of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, but with about 100 million people attending, demand for accommodation is very high.
For 42 days starting on January 9th, the alignment of the stars makes Allahabad, where the Ganges, the Yamuna and a mythical third river converge, an especially holy place to be.
An estimated 30 million Hindus took a dip Sunday at the Sangam the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the Saraswati rivers as part of the 55-day Kumbh Mela, or Pitcher Festival.
Delhi draws three-quarters of its drinking water from the Yamuna river, into which the city dumps quantities of sewage, almost all of it untreated, to join a cocktail of farm chemicals and industrial effluents, including arsenic.
There are said to be more than 156 kilometers of double track checker plate steel creating drivable roads in the sand and more than 4, 000 hollow steel floating pontoons supporting 18 temporary bridges spanning the Ganga and Yamuna.
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One of the most important dates in the Hindu religious calendar, the festival attracts millions of participants from India and around the world, who bathe in the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna and mythical Saraswati Rivers to cleanse their sins.
Tens of millions of people - 30 million on the main bathing day on Sunday - bound by faith that a dip at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna river will get rid of their sins - throng the event.
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Thirty-five Harvard colleagues and I are at the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India, a mass pilgrimage in which tens of millions of Hindus gather to bathe at the confluence of the sacred Ganga (Ganges) River, the Yamuna River, and the mythical underground Saraswathi.
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