Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the United States, is a beloved ritual site for the local pagan community. Every time I’m visiting Minneapolis I make a point of getting down into the park and walking the mile down to the confluence of the Minnehaha and Mississippi Rivers. Considered a place of the fae, it’s [...]
Exploring TurkeyI spent a year teaching English in Turkey and would highly recommend it as a travel destination for pagans, particularly anyone following a Greco-Roman path. There are thousands of archaeological and historic sites around the country, some truly incredible museums, great food, and very lovely people. I’ll write more later; right now I’m just working [...] |
Site UpdatesOk, site updates (new hosting, new wordpress install, etc etc etc) are taking longer than I expected. However, I did get a wiki set up with the intention of starting user created travel guides, so that will probably become the backbone of this site. Also, we have forums now, though there are a fair number [...] |
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Pagan Travel – An IntroductionWhy do we need a site for pagan travelers? Much of ancient paganism was land based, specific to places and their spirits. Pilgrimages were made over great distances to experience the numinous power of those places. Spirits of hills and waterways became worshiped as gods, and as their people spread so also grew their [...] |
October updateSo, yeah, I had great ambitions for this site back in June when I was still in Turkey. Since then I’ve traveled all the way from Samsun to Stockholm, entirely overland, added 5 new countries to my personal “where I’ve been” map, worked two jobs, had a vacation in Berlin, and had my appendix blow [...] |
Welcome to Pagan Travelers!We’re just setting up this site (June 2010) so subscribe to the rss feed and visit again soon! We’ll be blogging our way across Europe this summer, starting on the Black Sea coast of Turkey and crossing the Balkans to Croatia, then heading Northwards looking for September teaching work. |
