Pitcher festival

16 January 2010 04:48 am Views - 3638

An Indian Hindu devotee offers prayers during the solar eclipse on the banks of river Ganges in Haridwar on January 15, 2010, during the Kumbh Mela festival (Pitcher festival). Hundreds of thousands of Hindu devotees took a ritual bath in India's holy Ganges river as one of the world's largest religious gatherings got under way.   AFP