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

Taking in the panorama it was clear that, even without the monasteries, Meteora would be spectacular. Using the free tourist office map, we planned walking routes along the winding paths through the ...

Explore the Majestic Monasteries on Top of the World.

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 ...

Pico Iyer’s latest book is Aflame: Learning from Silence. To get to the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, just past Georgia O’Keefe’s Ghost Ranch in northern New Mexico, you have to bump ...

The magnitude 6.8 quake reduced to rubble roofs and walls at a monastery and a nunnery about 15 km east of the epicentre in Tingri county, China Tibet Online reported on Sunday (Jan 12).

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 ...

The magnitude 6.8 quake reduced to rubble roofs and walls at a monastery and a nunnery about 15 kilometres east of the epicentre in Tingri county, China Tibet Online reported on Sunday.

This acquisition by the owners of Meteora Developers reflects the hard work, collaboration, and dedication of everyone involved. I'm excited to see how the company continues to thrive and make a ...

Over-tourism at sites like China's Buddhist grottoes and under-tourism affecting Albania's Drino Valley monasteries demonstrate the varying challenges faced by cultural heritage in the tourism sector.