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The Akhada Trail

The tent city, the orders, and the men with ash on their skin

Three stops through Sadhugram, the temporary city that appears for the Kumbh and disappears after it. Best walked in the late afternoon. Ask before you photograph anyone.

3
stops
45
min
2.2
km

Flow

Stories start on their own when you reach a stop.

The route

1Sadhugram2The Akhada Camps3The Naga Sadhus500 mN
Distances and directions between stops are to scale. Streets are not shown, tap any stop below for turn-by-turn directions.
  1. While you listen: Look at the ground, not the tents. Water lines, power poles, drains, all of it laid in a few weeks, for a population the size of a district.

    Directions

Recorded narration in Marathi, Hindi and English, about half a megabyte per story. If a recording will not play, your phone reads the text aloud instead.