A group of Buddhist monks will begin 2026 by walking on foot across South Carolina, part of a larger trek that will take them halfway across the country to the nation’s capital.
As the new year began, two dozen monks and their rescue dog Aloka had passed through Atlanta on the Walk for Peace, according to a live online map of the journey, and were walking east toward Athens and the Savannah River.
The walk is expected to enter South Carolina in McCormick County near Plum Branch in the coming days. According to the latest update to the monks’ itinerary on Friday, the caravan is expected to walk through Edgefield and Saluda counties before crossing through Batesburg-Leesville and Lexington on their way to Columbia, before the march turns north and leaves the Palmetto State by passing through Rock Hill…