Well, At the time of his birth and before the Holy Kaaba was very respected by all people and mostly Arabs which is why they came there every year or so. And so at the time of his birth people didnt know he would be a prophet so they didnt come specially for his birth. They were already there or came for another purpose.
Mecca, in Arabia.
Zheng He went to Mecca to visit Muhammads grave.
Mohammed's early followers were beaten and abused for demanding the citizens of Mecca to abandon their religions and follow Mohammed's teaching.
The number varies between 3-to 4 million each year.
He didn't flee to Mecca, rather he and his followers were forced to migrate from their native city of Mecca to Madina. This event is called Hijrat.
Mecca.
Mecca
Some of the most common gifts brought from Mecca are Muslim jewelry. Some Muslims also bring back religious clothing and books.
During the Hajj, pilgrims stone Satan.
On foot, by car, by bus and by plane.
Hajj can only be performed at Mecca. All the pilgrim have to go to Mecca to perform Hajj.
The Puritans were a religious Protestant Christian group of pilgrims in the 1600s who fled the "over-tolerance" of the Netherlands to come to a land where they could freely impose a theocracy over their subjects. However, "pilgrim" is a term that just means a "religious person who travels in search of a special religious place" and there are numerous pilgrims in various religions whose beliefs differ quite profoundly with the Puritans as well as each other (such as Catholic pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela or Muslim pilgrims to Mecca).