Emilio Estevez’s The Way is a film that has immortalised the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage as a life tick for thousands of people every year. Through sharing the personal journey…
The sadist on the beach seems to have strange power over the slight figure crouching submissively in front of him in the pre-dawn light. He performs an exercise and his disciple frantically…
Pilgrimages are an age-old tradition stretching back through the history of nearly every major religion. Muslims journey to Mecca and Jews to Jerusalem. Buddhists travel to Tibet, and Hindus…
Here at Destinations, we’re conscious that places aren’t experienced in isolation: it’s about the journey, too. In the last of a four-part series exploring Mexico’s Yucatan…
The best day of our life? It happens when we live like it's the only day of our life. Tao Porchon-Lynch, the world's oldest yoga teacher lives the best day of her life – every day.
Most of us live in a world where the monotony of the working week drums its repetitive tune into our constantly moving limbs by day, while the same pressures weigh us down in our sleep at…
When I told friends and family that I was spending a month in Thailand learning Muay Thai kickboxing, their reactions varied from mild confusion (“You’re doing what?”) to downright…
When he arrived in Indonesia’s Java, British Statesman Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles rediscovered an ancient civilisation, and a forgotten Buddhist temple that went on to be crowned the…