June 22, 2008
Source: BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7468185.stm
Londoners are used to seeing juggernauts rumbling through their streets, but this was a very different kind of heavy traffic.
It was a riot of colour in the heart of the capital - three 40-foot-high wooden chariots pulled from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square, accompanied by a colourful crowd singing, chanting and dancing their way along the route.
Britain's Hare Krishnas were holding their 40th annual Rathayatra Carnival of Chariots, a street festival which brings together a mixture of devotees and bemused onlookers.