Catholic devotees gather in rice paddies to cover their bodies with mud and dried banana leaves for the annual 'Taong Putik' festival honouring St. John the Baptist. Men, women and children smear mud ...

When’s the last time you walked barefoot in the mud or skipped through a grassy meadow without wearing shoes? A Barfusspfad in Germany offers a safe place to reclaim the barefoot bliss of childhood ...