what's up guys, It's Alexander Travelbum, right now i'm in deadly and I'm finally
leaving after a week because we're going to Haridwar one of the 7 holy cities of
India
well people you see here are in
coming here to dip in the Ganga Yes, dip in the Ganga
family you can burn and put the ashes to put in Haridwar and Varanasi that
alright so we just took two shared rickshaws for ten rupee each and we're
trying to get to the Ganga river so back there in the centre of Hari blah that's
where it's separated in the canal in the city is a canal and here the real Ganga
I think from here their girl likes five six part come together when in they
come in the town they become separate in Haridwar is a really
holy place because it's the beginning of the ganga river the beginning from the
Himalayas before varanasi before everywhere else importance become oil
there many manufactory the shoes factories later factories blah blah blah
all the chemicals went down in the ganga when it reached till varanasi from nine
hundred kilometer view my friends reach Varanasi and he take file a hen even
come back hotel he gets sick three days he goes hospital because oil going from
his backside in the body oh and he that not to go to see not to do it I mean
don't go to bath you go wanna see to look the place go to the temple made the
people like this but not to take part
so the Ganges is the most holy river in the world or at least in India but it's
also the most polluted and especially in Varanasi it's very polluted so I can't
really go in there but I might be able to try here and how did peri boire where
we're kind of above the city so this is where the river comes right out of the
Himalayas so it should be much cleaner so I might give it a try
all right so we're way up here way up the river toward the Himalayas it should
be much cleaner over here do you think yeah I think is a good place like we can
see inside the water it's clean yeah we can trust the water here for
some little bats first time in my life we have to take bath in the Ganga and
hope for the best we hope that mother Ganga bless us with
their blessings all the problems in our life will finish and since now our life
is start with happiness I smile everything all the negative energy since
going down they will go sky aerials thumbs up
then youth this is a special moment in your life yeah
very special credit for the Ganga
okay we are now bathing in the Ganges River so I told myself I wasn't going to
do because I thought it was so polluted but it seems very clean up here see the
water is absolute no pollution looks inside is really clean that's why he
comes so far for take the bath in the Ganga hell because if we take Ganga but
in the inside there are millions of tourists over there and sometimes it's
able to flash takes some time they make P and toilet in the Ganga like this they
make dirty hair has just come from the Himalayas looks really clean and pure
that's why we decide to take bath in this part of Ganga here we test the
water and there we can take bath without can feel any harm in our soul our young
Ganga I say this is all there is in front of us so I can't see how it could
be too polluted here and it feels great
Linda's funny kumbhamela we come from this way now we go back this this is for
puja after Hannah when we put flour in the Ganga after face this all things we
put in the field let me put this fire things in that and then we fire with
this thing when it calls but when it start burning it means that all the
negative energy for from our families all the negative energies all the bad
vibrant near around us is finished and all the pie to think is start to us and
our families thought the main got heart keep re they'll be sell selling you
these offerings of flowers so that you can float them down the river but now
that I've made friends with this local here he is going to do it himself for
his family and I guess even for mine
sort of respect for the ceremony I it wasn't filmed we not going to do it
but other Indian people when do it will be filmmaking okay we can film other
people do it but but not around and now we're gonna go back to the main area
where everybody is and hopefully we're gonna see some of these ceremonies going
on tonight and maybe meet a few people
which men do little food
all right so I'm sitting here at the side of the Ganges and this is actually
a quieter part right here but there are thousands and thousands of people here
bathing in the river thousands of pilgrims that come here actually
millions that come here every year to bathe in this river and also you can see
that people are setting up camp or just setting up towels and blankets out here
because a lot of people won't actually stay in hotels they will sleep outside
along the Ganges because this is their holy place and they want to be next to
it for the duration of their stay
so every night the city comes alive with the ceremony called arc T where at night
there will be a big ceremony and people will be lighting lamps and lighting
candles and chanting things and this place will just be illuminated with
lights and especially the river from what I've heard so hopefully that'll be
the next thing I show you here or at least in a few minutes
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