Thousands of people across the Carolinas came out to see Buddhist monks on their cross-country “Walk for Peace” as they passed through a Charlotte suburb. Drone footage shows the monks crossing over the Catawba River into Fort Mill, South Carolina. The Walk for Peace is a 120-day pilgrimage that began in the Huong Dao Buddhist Temple in Fort Worth, Texas, on Oct. 26. | ABC7

Buddhist monks continue their Walk for Peace. They are south of Fredericksburg, Virginia Thursday morning, making their way to Washington, D.C. | WUSA 9

The Walk for Peace, Buddhist monks walking 2,300 miles from Texas to Washington, D.C., were making their way to Charlotte on Wednesday as crowds swelled to about 250 people at an intersection near the Carolinas border. Around 3 p.m., people of different ages and races stood at the corner of Pineville-Rock Hill Road and Flint Hill Road, awaiting the monks’ arrival. Bundled up in winter coats and braving the winter breeze, some held cameras to capture what some described as a once-in-a-lifetime ex