Religious Pilgrimages: 14 Of The World's Most Spiritual Destinations
Posted: 06/03/2012 8:23 am
Each year, millions of pilgrims travel to sites with unique spiritual significance in hopes of experiencing transformation and encountering wisdom.
Religious pilgrimages can be where located where a religious teacher was born, a miracle or mystery occurred, or a place where the natural world holds sacred significance.
Bodi Tree
According to Buddhist tradition, it was at this spot that Siddharta Gautama meditated for 49 days before attaining enlightenment. However, the tree is sacred for other reasons as well. Known as the "mythical World Tree," some say it is here that believers can reach liberation through spiritual development. Between 800,000 to over a million people mainly from Asia visit the Bodi Tree each year making this one of our most popular pilgrimage spots.
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10 more to go. 
And the Camino pilgrimage is more about how you get there than where you're actually going anyway. So many pilgrims get to Santiago & end up feeling "meh, now what?" after visiting the cathedral. 
There's also a pilgrimage trail in Japan, going to 1000 temples, and the whole Camino movement is spawning interest in other routes as well (Canterbury, hadrian's wall, Appalachian Trail, etc)
Or you could just stay home and watch science and nature shows.
So predictable.
Thousands killed. I imagine they've repaired it by now.
