Pilgrimage of the 88 temples

Last Saturday I was finishing my morning walk and met a man who was training to walk the Pilgrimage of 88 temples on Shikoku Island in Japan. This is sometimes called the Henro walk, since henro is the Japanese word for pilgrimage. Apparently this is something Buddhists in Japan aim to do when they reach 60, though it is a challenging 1,200km walk to visit all the temples.