This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). In the hazy mid-morning sun, dappled light dances across the dank woodland soil as the tips of gangly black pines sway gently in the ...
Considering a spiritual pilgrimage? Why not hike the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage trail in Japan? Several years ago, I traversed the Kumano Kodo trail on my own spiritual quest, after having walked snippets ...
Tucking into our tofu hotpot at the end of our first day’s hike, our host started to play music. His three-stringed instrument, the sanshin, resembles a banjo, except that its body is covered in ...
Revered for guiding, the three-legged crow god surely had my back. In rural mountainous Japan, I hoofed up the steep Kumano Kodo trail, retracing ancient footsteps of emperors, shoguns, and nobles who ...
STORRS, Conn. (WTNH) — The family of a Storrs woman who went missing in Japan is hoping to find runners who were on the trail she was planning to hike. Patricia Wu-Murad was last seen on April 10, and ...
Considering a spiritual pilgrimage? Why not hike the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage trail in Japan? Several years ago, I traversed the Kumano Kodo trail on my own spiritual quest, after having walked snippets ...