Aug 21st, 2012 at 6:30PM:
Sometimes, the most poignant travel imagery is captured before the destination has even woken up. Take, for instance, today's Photo of the Day, taken by Flickr user Calvin Lee on the banks of the Ganges River in Varanasi, India. Later in the day, the river will be filled with pilgrims engaging in religious rituals, tourists taking photos of them and the hustlers that inevitably follow the ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Photo Of The Day: The Ganges River At Dawn
Aug 21st, 2012 at 6:30PM:
Sometimes, the most poignant travel imagery is captured before the destination has even woken up. Take, for instance, today's Photo of the Day, taken by Flickr user Calvin Lee on the banks of the Ganges River in Varanasi, India. Later in the day, the river will be filled with pilgrims engaging in religious rituals, tourists taking photos of them and the hustlers that inevitably follow the ...Video: A sadhu singing by the Ganges River, Varanasi
Mar 18th, 2012 at 6:00PM:
One of the best gifts travel gives you is all the great music you wouldn't otherwise hear. Strange tunes often stick in the mind long after the memories of meals and sights have dimmed. Last week I brought you a video of a kalimba player in Malawi. Here's a completely different tune from a completely different country, yet both tunes have gotten into my head.
This man is a sadhu, one of the ...
Medieval pilgrims journeyed deep into Africa, archaeologists discover
Nov 6th, 2011 at 10:00AM:
The Kingdom of Makuria is the quintessential forgotten civilization. Very few people have even heard of it, yet it ruled southern Sudan for hundreds of years and was one of the few kingdoms to defeat the Arabs during their initial expansion in the 7th century AD. Makuria was a Christian kingdom, born out of the collapse of the earlier Christian kingdom of Axum. Makuria survived as a bulwark of ...Photo of the Day (11.16.10)
Nov 16th, 2010 at 4:30PM:
This Sunday marked the beginning of the Hajj, the world's largest annual pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. As the fifth pillar of Islam, the pilgrimage is a religious duty that must be carried out by every able-bodied Muslim that can do so. Saudi officials have reported that a record-breaking 3.4 million people are expected to come from all corners of the globe to perform the Hajj this year. ...El Al to Nigerian pilgrims: No way on our flights
Oct 18th, 2010 at 4:30PM: El Al, Israel's airline, has banned thousands of pilgrims from Nigeria from traveling to Israel. Security is the reason given. The Tourism Ministry, according to the Associated Press, says that this move will screw up the travel plans for 28,000 Nigerian Christians from Abuja in the next few months.
The Nigerian pilgrimage season starts in late October and continues through January, and a ...Stonehenge burial may be prehistoric tourist
Sep 29th, 2010 at 11:30AM: Archaeologists call him the "Boy with the Amber Necklace", and ever since he was discovered in 2005 they've known he was special. Not only would his jewelry have been rare and expensive back when he was buried 3,550 years ago, but the choice of his grave site was significant too--just three miles from Stonehenge.
Now chemical analysis on his teeth has revealed something else special about ...Record turnout on Spain's Camino de Santiago pilgrimage trail
Aug 31st, 2010 at 10:30AM: For more than a thousand years, the faithful have been making an arduous journey along rugged trails in Spain's northwestern province of Galicia to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. Dedicated to the Apostle St. James, it's one of Europe's most popular pilgrimage destinations and the routes leading there are seeing record numbers of hikers.
Part of the boom is because this year St. James' ...Interfaith tourism in Syria
Jan 22nd, 2010 at 9:30AM: Who says the Middle East has to be a place of religious tension?
Not the worshipers at Deir Mar Mousa monastery. This medieval Christian monastery is a pilgrimage center for Christians and Muslims alike thanks to an open policy of worship and tolerant religious discussion.
Christians make up about ten percent of Syria's population and there are churches in many cities, like the one in Hama ...Eel, venison, and pumpkin pudding: where to get a really traditional Thanksgiving
Nov 26th, 2009 at 2:30PM: As we sit down to eat huge quantities of turkey, pumpkin pie, and cranberries, we might want to remember that this traditional Thanksgiving feast isn't so traditional. Like all traditions, Thanksgiving dinner has changed over time and has little in common with the event that inspired it. Most history books mark the first Thanksgiving as the feast the Pilgrims had at Plymouth Colony after their ...
