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Confluences are particularly holy, and the confluence of the Ganges with the Yamuna at Allahabad is the most sacred spot in India.

Delhi, Varanasi, Agra, Jaipur, Jaisalmer and Simla makes a great two-week itinerary, contrasting desert cities with cool hill stations, a holy city on the Ganges with princely Rajasthan.

Start your foodie crawl in Ganges with some java – and a side order of local gossip – at Salt Spring Coffee, or eat brunch outside in the shade of a plum tree at Ganges' ever-popular Tree House Cafe.

Murshidabad is important to India as the take off point of Bhagirathi Hooghly and a considerable stretch of it falls in Murshidabad to coordinate the flow of the Ganges with Bhagirathi.

In a ceremony on the banks of the River Ganges, with over three thousand of our devotees chanting prayers, I immersed her ashes in the sacred river and prayed that her immortal self swiftly reach the sea of the Divine's loving grace.

Many come for three or four days around particularly auspicious bathing days (defined by the lunar calendar) and combine their bathing in the Ganges with shopping and visiting the funfair that borders the site.

Photographs: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images 5.40pm BST Children displaced by flooding of the River Ganges sit with their goats by a roadside in Allahabad, India.

Far below in the valley is the hippie hangout of Rishikesh, a city on the holy Ganges, filled with temples where Hindus come to pray and bathe in the river.

After Serenissima, he lead the ambitious Ganges trip with the help of writer Porter Fox, building a modular, motorcycle-powered craft that was a departure from the scrap style.

As kings, warlords, and would-be empires raged back and forth across Persia and the Middle East, from the River Nile to the River Ganges, armed with ever more deadly weapons, the brutality of life increased and so did the longing of those caught in the crossfire to find relief.

"With the Ganges, there was a commonality, with the spiritual aspect of how people interact with the river.