Kumba Mela

Getting up at 3am to start heading down to Haridwar was just the beginning! Myself, Nadine, Brian, Stephen, Aaron and Rob took a cab to the train station, train to Haridwar, then you walk a few miles to get into where the bathing ghats are. For those of you who don't know the Kumba Mela happens here every 12 years!! So its a big deal. Imagine the whole country, not joking, the whole country coming to Rishikesh and Haridwar to bathe in the Ganges River on this day. It was insane, insane, insane. We experienced one of the holiest days here and were very lucky...Naked sadhu's, holding onto chains in the Ganges so the current doesn't pull you away, crowds of people asking for our pictures and shaking our hands, so many the cops had to shoe them away....the train was a scene out of Indiana Jones. People hanging out the sides, on the roof, glued to the front of the train. Can't wait to show you pics! Hari om!!