EDIT CONTAINS 4:3 MATERIAL<br/> <br />Thousands of ash smeared Hindu holy men and devotees marked the last Royal Bath of the Kumbh Mela with a dip in the Ganges.<br/> <br />The Kumbh Mela festival, the largest largest gathering of humans at a single place, comes to an end next month.<br/> <br />Up to 100 million pilgrims and Hindu ascetics are expected to attend the two-month festival.<br/> <br />It is held every 12 years in a temporary city covering an area larger than Athens, spread over a wide sandy river bank in Allahabad at the point where the Ganges and Yamuna rivers meet the Saraswati, a mythical river.<br/> <br />The festival grows in size every time it is held and is considered the world's largest temporary gathering of people.
