Naga Sadhus (naked holy men) queue outside their camp (Juna Akhada) in the Tent City. Most are only wearing flower garlands. They wait for the beginning of the parade which will lead them to the bathing ghat. Photo taken at dawn, just before, the Royal Bath parade, during Kumbh Mela 2019 in Prayagraj (Allahabad), India. Kumbh Mela or Kumbha Mela is a major pilgrimage and festival in Hinduism, and probably the greatest religious festival in the World. It is celebrated in a cycle of approximately 12 years at four river-bank pilgrimage sites: the Allahabad (Ganges-Yamuna Sarasvati rivers confluence), Haridwar (Ganges), Nashik (Godavari), and Ujjain (Shipra). The festival is marked by a ritual dip in the waters, but it is also a celebration of community commerce with numerous fairs, education, religious discourses by saints, mass feedings of monks or the poor, and entertainment spectacles. Pilgrims believe that bathing in these rivers is a means to cleanse them of their sins and favour a better next incarnation.