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Aerial photograph of a dense Kumbh Mela camp at Allahabad (Prayagraj) with rows of white and coloured tents, a large orange-and-yellow striped canopy in the foreground, and thick crowds of pilgrims moving between tents and along the riverside. A steel truss bridge spans the flat river plain in the background, and small thatched huts and parked vehicles sit among the tents. No individual figure can be clearly identified as a person from this distance.

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