Monks have been seeking spiritual enlightenment at these sites on steep cliffs, inside caves and atop an extinct volcano for ...

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Greek monks were trying to build monasteries in places that were hidden or difficult to access in order to protect them from ...

Rising from the lush Thessaly plains near Kalambaka like giant dollops of Play-Doh, the Meteora – with its weird and wonderful sandstone pillars housing 24 Byzantine monasteries – is one of ...

With cliff-hanging monasteries and golden-roofed temples, Bhutan is a modern Shangri La (Picture: Getty) Let’s play a game. What is the only country in the world without traffic lights ...

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Guru Padmasambhava, who introduced Buddhism to Bhutan, is said to have reached the site of the isolated cliff-hanging monastery in the 8th century—on the back of a tigress! That gave the ...

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Nea Moni, or “New Monastery,” which was built in the 11th century ... was visited by three monks who had miraculously found an icon of the Virgin Mary hanging from a myrtle branch. The monks then told ...

We were reluctant to leave Greece and decided to spend a few more days visiting the monasteries of Meteora. We drove across the flat agricultural plain around Larissa to Trikala, stopping to see the ...