Some of Kyoto’s greatest pleasures are about the journey, not just the destination — and the Philosopher’s Path is the perfect example. This gentle, tree-lined stone walkway follows a cherry-tree-lined

For more than eight hundred years, people have been walking to Canterbury. In the Middle Ages they came in their thousands, by foot and on horseback, to pray at the

The great Indian thinker and spiritual teacher J. Krishnamurti spent more than fifty years travelling the world, striving to put into words a message that words could never quite contain.

Source: Pixabay If Mecca is the city toward which Muslims pray, Medina is the city where the early Muslim community took shape. Lying a few hundred kilometres to the north,

A 16th-century brick citadel that never fell, crowning the bluff where the Oka pours into the Volga.

Source: Pixabay For many travellers, the Registan in Samarkand is the single most spectacular sight in all of Central Asia. Three vast theological colleges, their facades sheathed in turquoise and

The historian and philosopher Will Durant once described his long search for happiness. He looked for it in knowledge, and found only disillusionment. He looked for it in travel, and

With its great glass-and-iron dome rising above South Kensington, the Royal Albert Hall is one of the world’s most famous concert venues and a beloved London landmark. Since 1871 this

Source: Pixabay In the hills of central Portugal, the town of Fátima has grown around one of the most important Marian shrines in the Catholic world. Each year millions of

Source: Pixabay At the foot of the Pyrenees in southwest France, the small town of Lourdes has become one of the most visited pilgrimage sites in the Christian world, welcoming