Kumbh Mela
Last December 2009, my family and I were scheduled for a trip to India, Tibet and Nepal with a family that’s close to ours, the Go-Cedenios. My cousins from Australia then scheduled a trip to Manila so mum and I backed out of the trip leaving my dad to go with them.
When he came back home sharing with us photos and experiences from the tried, I felt so bad I missed it that I couldn’t help but cry. Recently Uncle Kete invited my dad to visit India again next year for an apparent must-see pilgrimage of some sort.
That pilgrimage is the Kumbh Mela, a Hindu pilgrimage where millions of people flock to the rivers to bathe. Other activities include religious discussions, devotional singing, mass feeding of holy men and women and the poor, and religious assemblies where doctrines are debated and standardized. Past records of this event show that as much as 75 million flock to the Kumbh Mela (Wiki).
Now this would be an interesting experience, to visit such a sacred tradition of Hindus as well as to witness it all first-hand. I would personally love to see it but India is not exactly the cleanest of cities and I can only imagine (given the amount of people at the event) how dirty it will be..
