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    A different Camino, the Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage

    PBS' new "Sacred Journeys" series on pilgrimages has a full episode on the Shikoku walk, with lots of extras on their website. The video is free to watch online, too. See: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/sacredjourneys/content/home/ For those who can't see it from PBS website due to restrictions, it's...
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    A different Camino, the Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage

    This page will give you a good breakdown, and includes a calculator to customize the estimate for your journey: http://www.shikokuhenrotrail.com/shikoku/planningCost.html
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    A different Camino, the Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage

    Lewis-Kraus has written a separate piece for those who've done the Camino Frances and who are thinking of doing the Shikoku Henro. A sobering read, to be sure, and most of the information still applies. There's a full copy on this forum at this location...
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    A different Camino, the Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage

    Thanks for bringing back the Shikoku memories, Kat. For others considering this walk... I've been to Shikoku twice to walk the 88 Temple henro (pilgrimage), adding the additional 20 "bekkaku" temples to extend the walk (and the inclines). I thoroughly recommend it to veteran Camino peregrinos...
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    Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage

    Hi all Just a follow up to some of the info above: Shikoku isn't the southernmost island of the 4 large islands, as claimed. That would be Kyushu. But Shikoku is well to the southwest of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, by some 700 kilometres. That said, Nagoya University researchers on...
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    Trondheim (Nidaros) to Santiago de Compostela

    lovingkindness -- I just read through all your (current) travels in one go this evening. I'm awed by your strength and ambition! And I love your photos and commentary. You reported some cold nights in late summer when in Norway, and now getting into late autumn further down into northern...
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