Dajia Mazu Pilgrimage

Firecrackers burst, leaving the street strewn with red paper, and the palanquin advances slowly through gongs, drums and crowds, while hundreds of thousands of feet follow Mazu step by step across rice fields, temple courtyards and highways in the dead of night. The Dajia Mazu Pilgrimage is Taiwan's most moving mobile act of faith, and once you have walked it you will understand what it means to find human warmth all along the way.