Allahabad Vacations, Allahabad Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

It's getting late and it's been a full day. Some highlights are some personal time with Guruji today which tends to leave me in a state unlike any other. I'm just equalizing now and it's been about 7 hours. We are having a personal meditation time with him tomorrow morning from 5am -7am which is when the traditionaly Sunday morning service begins. We will be under the banyan tree again. I know in particular he will be examining my progress since initiation day, he asked and told me today as i...

The Ardh Kumbh mela, considered as the largest religious congregation in the world after Kumbh, began in Sangam Allahabad on Wednesday 1st Jan 2007, with the first auspicious bathing taking place in the early hours. A large number of pilgrims and "Kalpavasis" who observe a month of penance at the melaground, started taking the holy dip at 04:48 hours at the bathing ghats and also Sangam, the confluence of Ganga, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati. The first royal bathing ...

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Lat night we took an overnight train to Allahabad which was not a nice experience. I couldn't sleep so I stayed up and read for a long time. In the morning we couldn't wash or anything so felt pretty rank by this point. We caught a bus to a hotel to have breakfast but couldn't freshen up there either. From there we caught another bus that took us to the first Prime Minister of India's house to look around. Ghandi spent a lot of time there. I bought a few books to send home. We then caught th...