THE JESSIE EDIT · CULTURAL TRAVEL

Sacred Journeys

Sacred places are also lived places. I am interested in how belief, history and ordinary life meet in a mosque, a pilgrimage town or a place of remembrance.

Stories in this theme

2 selected stories

A photograph together outside the Sixty Dome Mosque, from my Bangladesh journey.

Culinary Cultures & Terroir · BANGLADESH

Bangladesh stayed with me in flavours, fabrics and faces

Looking back on a 2025 journey through Dhaka, Bagerhat and the Sundarbans: street food, clothes made by local tailors, and the people I remember.

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Tall trees above the stone steps on the Daimon-zaka approach.

Sacred Journeys · KOYASAN & KUMANO, JAPAN

Walking my own pilgrimage: Koyasan and the Kumano Kodo

Meditation, forest paths, hot springs, fellow travellers and a missed last bus: finding my own pace on Japan’s sacred routes.

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