And you thought the Port-a-John line at the music festival was long…

This mind-blowing shot was part of a blog post by Steve McCurry called “Simple Act of Waiting,” and shows what the Indian government estimated to be seventy million Hindus waiting to bathe in the Ganges at the Kumbh Mela Festival in 2001.

McCurry starts his piece with a quote we can all appreciate and which makes this photo all the more compelling:

“Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.” Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns” via Waiting on an epic scale.