SECRET SACRED SITES Format: Paperback

Sacred sites are among the world's most visited and venerated places. They indeed offer another level of experience to its visitors and pilgrims, full of intensity, presence and, for some, higher vibration levels and consciousness. The drawback is often overcrowded places, full of tourists whose presence will ruin this privileged moment. In his forty years of pilgrimage, renowned National Geographic photographer Martin Gray has visited 160 countries and photographed hundreds of these lesser known sacred sites. He selected here his favorite hidden holy places, the result of a lifetime's quest.

Martin Gray first became fascinated with travel, archaeology, photography, and pilgrimage sites while living in India during his early teenage years. Returning to India in his later teens, he began practicing Bhakti yoga, the yoga of devotion, which he continued through four decades of pilgrimage to more than 2,000 sacred sites in nearly 170 countries. During these years, he read widely in the fields of mythology, religion, and ecology, authored several books, and produced the hugely popular World Pilgrimage Guide at sacredsites.com.