The Department of Environmental Conservation will issue an interim access plan within a few weeks that is expected to enable paddlers to walk 0.8 of a mile from the iron bridge just below the Goodnow Riverconfluence along an old logging road to parking, agency officials said.
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.
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.