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Home > Travel Themes > Wellness & Spiritual Vacations
Welcome
to the Travel with a Challenge Wellness, Spiritual and Pilgrimage
Vacations theme page of feature articles that have appeared in our magazine.
Explore this exciting collection by clicking on the images or titles to
enter each richly-illustrated and inspiring story. Acknowledging the personal
growth offered by volunteer service as a path to wellness, you will also
find food for thought on our volunteer vacations feature article theme page.
Be sure to visit this website's growing directory
of travel listings showcasing tour operators, accommodations, organizations
and publications that specialize in Wellness, Spiritual and Pilgrimage Vacations
worldwide. Also check our directory of volunteer vacation listings.
Santiago de Compostela's cathedral is the endpoint for Christianity's most popular vacation pilgrimage.
Ordained minister and counselor, Susan Copeland, reflects on the many motivations to undertake a pilgrim journey in the 21st century and the steps that unfold with making that decision. She shares her own experience of the joys and challenges of going on pilgrimage and the destinations she has visited along the way.
New Zealand's "Natural Spa of the South Pacific" is a mecca for visitors looking for unique health and wellness experiences among the hotsprings and bubbling mud. Rotorua is also the heartland of Maori culture and THE place to experience the history, traditions and spectacular music, dance and artistry of these powerful aboriginal people.
It’s a long way from either Israel or from Germany’s famous medieval
passion play at Oberammergau, but Alberta’s colorful version of stories
from the Christian New Testament is every bit as dramatic. After 14 years
of sell-out July performances with visitors from across Canada and around
the world, it is here to stay, with a dramatic outdoor “Holyland” landscape
that must be experienced.
Spiritual curiosity and passion for transformation
are among the human race's oldest motivators to travel. Learn about the
top sacred places around the world and how to prepare most successfully
for visiting such culturally, historically and spiritually significant destinations.
Do you come home from a vacation disappointed or
exhausted? Learn how to plan creative, healthy vacations that promote physical,
mental, and spiritual wellness to last all year! Join the author on her
pilgrimage to a new sacred destination every year to learn about the history
and religious practices of that area.
Take a Hawaiian Islands life enrichment holiday
while focusing on your physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual health.
Identify the best web resources to research your Hawaii wellness vacation,
and consider how best to balance genuine Hawaii with wellness vacationing on four Hawaiian Islands..
Learn about Hawaii's world-class practitioners and
healthy holiday planners who offer a wide-ranging menu of treatment and
counselling services, retreats and workshops designed to send clients home
in tip-top form.
Whether you are already healthy or you are looking
for a few tricks to get healthy, come along on an all-inclusive wellness
vacation in southern Arizona with journalist, Alison Gardner, where she
encounters the diversity of a cruise ship and the personal resolve to step
into the future with a refreshed body, mind and spirit.
Join journalist, playwright and novelist, Barney
Jeffries, as he encounters the spectacular geological formations of Meteora
in Central Greece and pinnacle-perched medieval monasteries that now welcome
vacationers and pilgrims.
Internationally-recognized artist, iconographer, archaeologist, and theological
historian, Vasiliki Papantoniou, shares her love of the living art form
of Orthodox iconography through her guided tours of Greece and the Greek
Islands.
Follow northwestern Spain's Camino de Santiago
in the footsteps of millions of pilgrims over more than 1,000 years. Our latest article features an independent walk the full distance of the Spanish Camino from the French border. The remainder document a 9-day walking tour that takes readers from León
to the ultimate destination: Santiago de Compostela. Each article
is hotlinked below:
Over a cup of strong coffee in Petra, a Jewish travel writer and a Jordanian
Moslem tour guide identify common ground from uncommon experiences, giving
hope for their people to find peace in their hearts and homes.
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When looking for health and wellness centers, consider holidays in Florida. With a combination of sun, spas, entertainment and private villas in Florida - relaxing could not be easier.
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