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Vacation Is The Modern Pilgrimage

July 15, 2026 · 1 min read

We walked down stories of stairs into the earth. Our whispers echoed off the walls. At last, there it was: a wooden dock crouching over an underground pool of dazzling blue water. We had arrived at our first cenote. Cenotes occur naturally in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, where my wife and I spent part of our Read more...

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Theresa Wagner
Klingt spannend mit den Cenoten, dieses leuchtend blaue Wasser unter der Erde muss beeindruckend sein. Für mich ist Urlaub aber eher Erholung mit der Kleinen am Strand oder in den Bergen, kein Ersatz für eine echte Pilgerreise nach Jerusalem oder zum Kloster. Was hat euch denn am meisten an dem Ort an Gott erinnert?
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