1.   Last year some Libyan religious pilgrims took a camel train through Egypt for the hajj to protest the sanctions.

2.   The Lewis pilgrim can also take a taxi.

3.   The most un-Christmaslike spot in Christendom is what the pilgrims will take with them and remember.

4.   These images re-create -- in rich and distorted, but entirely legible, detail -- the routes pilgrims would take in visiting particular holy sites.

5.   Pilgrims take buses or cars for most of the way and hike the final stretch to the cave.

6.   Some pilgrims took shelter from the sun by standing under trees or bridges.

7.   Snapping pictures, Christian pilgrims take in the scene from behind a low barrier a few feet away.

8.   Tapes of religious sermons and recitations from the Quran were on sale and some pilgrims took time off the solemnity of the occasion to pose for group photos.

9.   Sprinklers have been set up to spray a cool mist over the sun-seared routes pilgrims must take toward the end of the week.

10.   The hajj ends Wednesday when pilgrims take part in Eid al-Adha prayers and slaughter sheep to commemorate the sacrifice of Abraham.