{"id":8680,"date":"2010-01-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/01\/19\/luxury-tents-lure-high-end-tourists-to-maha-kumbha-mela\/"},"modified":"2010-01-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T12:00:00","slug":"luxury-tents-lure-high-end-tourists-to-maha-kumbha-mela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/01\/19\/luxury-tents-lure-high-end-tourists-to-maha-kumbha-mela\/","title":{"rendered":"Luxury Tents Lure High-End Tourists to Maha Kumbha Mela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thaindian.com\/newsportal\/business\/luxury-swiss-tents-lure-high-end-tourists-to-maha-kumbh-with-images_100306092.html\">www.thaindian.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HARIDWAR, INDIA, January 19, 2010: The hospitality industry in this pilgrim town is leaving no pebble unturned to lure even high-end tourists to the Maha Kumbh Mela with well-appointed luxury Swiss tents and private bathing sites on the Ganges, combining spirituality with comfort. Apart from private access to the Ganges for those auspicious dips, most of these weather-proof tented accommodations also offer services such as special prayers, havans, ayurvedic massages, foot reflexology and yoga. <\/p>\n<p>Such camps do not come cheap &#8212; $100 a day for a couple in ordinary tents and as much as $300 for more luxurious accommodations that come with air-conditioning and running hot water. The camp sites at Haridwar are also offering a grand cultural evening with folk dances, bhajans and stories from Indian epics, apart from guided tours to local places of interest and even visits to Yamunotri, Gangotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our camps can cater to 200 guests, with wellness treatments, reflexology massages and free yoga instruction,&#8221; said Thar Camps director Sandeep Shekhawat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.thaindian.com HARIDWAR, INDIA, January 19, 2010: The hospitality industry in this pilgrim town is leaving no pebble unturned to,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}