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April on the Camino Frances: The wildflowers in Navarra are blooming. About 1,823 pilgrims are crossing the meseta today.
Spring on Shikoku 88: The henro season is open, temple gardens at peak bloom. About 700 pilgrims are on the island today.
Spring on Kumano Kodo: Mountain trails are at their greenest. An estimated 208 visitors walking the Nakahechi today.
Where to sleep and where to weep.
What to pack and what to leave behind.
The route guide for people who care about the interior journey as much as the exterior one.
Camino de Santiago (Frances)
Spain & FranceThe most walked pilgrimage in the world. From Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port across the Pyrenees, through the vineyards of Navarra, the meseta of Castilla, and into Galicia. 790 kilometers of terrain that strips away everything you thought you needed.
Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage
JapanA 1,200-kilometer circle around Japan's smallest main island, connecting 88 sacred temples. You walk with Kukai — the monk who walked this path in 774 AD. The island walks with you.
Kumano Kodo
JapanAn ancient network of pilgrimage trails through the sacred mountains of the Kii Peninsula. Where Shinto and Buddhism fused into something older than either. One of only two pilgrimage routes in the world with UNESCO World Heritage status.
Every route has two maps
One shows the terrain. The other shows what happens to you while you walk it. We publish both.
Most pilgrimage guides tell you where to sleep, what to pack, how many kilometers per day. Useful information. Half the story. The other half — what happens to your mind after day ten, why the meseta breaks people open, what it means when the path circles back to where it started — that part usually lives in forum threads and hostel conversations.
We think both maps belong in the same guide.