David Noton / People crossing a footbridge over the Nam Khan River, Luang Prabang, Laos, March 2009.

Axel Gomille / Demoiselle cranes (Anthropoides virgo) flock, India.

Dong Lei / Landscape with buddhist shrine, Tibet, Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China, August 2006.

Axel Gomille / Zebu cattle (Bos primigenius indicus) holy cow, walking past Sadhu or holy man, Varanasi, India

Axel Gomille / Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus), temple elephant gives blessings to pilgrims at the ruins and temple complex of Hampi, Karnataka, India

Cyril Ruoso / Monks chanting sutras in mountain worshipping ceremony. Great Gobi B Strictly Protected Area, Mongolia. 2018.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Monks starting to draw a mandala, Thikshey monastery, a Tibetan Buddhist gompa, Ladakh, India, September 2018.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Monk with at Thikshey monastery with prayer flags, at 3260 meters of altitude, Ladakh, India, September 2018.

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Tibetan monk and guardian of the Meditation cave of Padmasambhava, enroute to the waterfall near Yubeng, Meili Snow Mountain National park, Yunnan, China, October 2017.

Francisco Marquez / Pilgrim near Medhane Alem Orthodox Christian Church. City of Harar, Ethiopia. February 2008.

Gavin Hellier / Buddhists worshiping inside Jogyesa Temple, Jongno-gu district, Seoul, South Korea, May 2016. Hellier

Nick Upton / Tiny pilgrimage chapel of Nuestra Senora de la Pena (Our Lady of the Rock) in the bare rocky Barranco de las Penitas gorge, Vega de Rio Palmas, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, June.