The two events that New Orleans is best known for are Mardi Gras and the Jazz and Heritage Festival, each a pilgrimage for a different type of reveler.
Tens of millions go on a pilgrimage each year.
Hundreds of thousands of Shiites from Iraq, Iran and beyond make their way to Karbala for the pilgrimage each year.
Up to 50,000 Britons make the pilgrimage each year, but ministers have become concerned with the growing problem of unscrupulous travel agents cashing in on religious devotion.
But now, she makes a pilgrimage each year to Mecca, wears loose fitting Islamic clothing that hides her figure, and she fasts twice a week.
Thousands of American Indians make a pilgrimage each year to Mirando City, 30 miles east of Laredo, in search of the bitter peyote buttons that are eaten in religious ceremonies.
But the monument and the surrounding land are now listed for sale at $300,000 in hopes that a buyer will be able to invest more money in visitor amenities for the 80,000 tourists who make the pilgrimage each year.
Simon spins vivid tales about love, growing older, faith and pilgrimage, each dripping with spiritual longing and a certain unexpected joy.
From the summer of 1971, when I first visited Paris, to a couple of weeks ago on my most recent trip, I always go to Notre Dame, if only briefly, just one of the 12 million or more who make the pilgrimage each year.
Approximately 80,000 Egyptians make the Hajj pilgrimage each year, usually returning to Egypt a few days to a few weeks after it.
