Archive for April, 2016

  • Letters Home: A thousand-year-old walking trail, the 88 temples of Shikoku

    By bkepes on 21 April, 2016
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    We’ve been walking for six days now, at every corner looking for the trail sign, a pilgrim in a big straw hat. People who follow this ancient circular route of 1,100 kilometers around the island of Shikoku are called Henro, and we are doing our pilgrimage the traditional way, on foot. Most of the other Henro we see are Japanese […]

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