Dreadlocked ascetics among 25 million to take a dip at Maha Kumbh festival

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More than 150,000 tents have been set up across 4,000 hectares (9,900 acres), or the size of 7,500 football fields, to accommodate visitors, and nearly as many toilets.

In the past, the gathering has been visible from space, with India's space agency releasing photographs of it in 2019.

About 50,000 security officers are also on guard to ensure the event, touted to be the world's largest gathering of humanity, goes off smoothly.