Situated in the rain shadow of Dhaulagiri and Nilgiri Mountains, Nepal's Upper Mustang area attracts tourists with its breathtaking landscapes.

Mount Athos is home to twenty monasteries where only monks are allowed to live and only males are allowed to visit, women are ...

Eco-friendly trekking in the Himalayas advances maintainable travel by minimizing natural effects and supporting neighborhood communities.

Traveling along the Tea Horse Road unlocks a land of teahouses, centuries-old monasteries, and epic valley views.

In Italy, travelers can taste the best food and wine on Earth. One idyllic Italian mountain town blends these offerings with underrated medieval attractions.

In the Scriptures, the mountain is symbolic of that quiet place ... Austria — a former Carthusian monastery founded in 1330 — I have come to appreciate the immense value of silence.

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Their first attempts to found a monastery led their prior, Fr Vincent Ryan, to establish a community in Rathmore, Co Kerry, but in 1832 he was offered 600 acres of mountain scrub land at Strahan ...

Native Alaskan language scholars say the name Denali had been used by Indigenous people for thousands of years for the tallest mountain in North America, found in Alaska. The mountain’s name ...

The Monastery of the Holy Spirit is considered the top destination in Rockdale County. The centerpiece of the Monastery is the Abbey Church, which took the monks 15 years to build. The Monastery ...

Did you know the Swannanoa Valley had a monastery next to the Municipal Golf Course? Before the nuns were there, former North Carolina Gov. Locke Craig owned both the land that would become the ...