Hi, in one of my campaign there is a young monk that is going on a road trip through other monasteries to learn their philosophies and martial arts.
Each monastery will make the monk PC go through some trials, that in some cases will beed the help of his fellow PC to be solved, but since it will be a long trip i can't come up with enough ideas that are stimulating both for the mind and the muscles of the players and so i'm looking for some advices/ideas for good "Monastic trials" or "Traveling troubles" for the road trip.
We are playing a custom setting campaign, staring at low leavel (2 or 3), so i'm open to almost everything in terms of monasteries races/philosophies.

Thanks in advance and sorry for the eventual errors in my english