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challenging, high-altitude trails extraordinary views while circling Tibet’s most sacred about 22,000-feet high, and Seek enlightenment or merely religions. Mt. Kailash looms mountain—holy to four the circuit—or taken pilgrims through Darchen, TibetMount Kailash Korakora—has
and along the breathtaking glacial Manasarovar Lake for more than 15,000 years.Walk with local guides in Turkey Abraham Path connects places DVVRFLDWHGZLWKWKH%LEOLFDOɿJXUHAbraham—a revered patriarch in With the goal of sharing the Islam, Judaism and Christianity. Hebron, West Bankwith foreigners, the 12-year-old hospitable side of this region ğDQOóXUID7XUNH\WRThe Abraham Path
understanding along the way.to Abraham’s birthplace, and with Palestinian guides from the northern West Bank to his tomb in Hebron, connecting with locals and fostering cultural
complete this about 750-mile on the rural island of Shikoku. There is no single correct way to followed the footsteps of the sacred walk; it was designed ZLWKRXWDQRIɿFLDOEHJLQQLQJRUFor over 1200 years, white-Buddhist monk Kobo Daishi robed Shikoku, Japan88-Temple Pilgrimagehenro, or pilgrims, have
end. Whether or not you get a age-old stamp from all of the 88 temples, soak in Japanese culture in baths—that dot the trail.onsen—natural thermal06
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Scandinavia or seek a shaman’s healing in ice-cold lagoons in Peru. —Kathleen Rellihan
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