On the Hippie Trail Author:Rick Steves Back in 1978, the ultimate trip for any backpacker was the so-called "Hippie Trail" from Istanbul to Kathmandu. — Rick Steves made the trek and, like a travel writer in training, he penned this account. — The journal was packed away and never read... forgotten for 42 years. — Then in 2020, Rick dug it out and, as if on an anthropological dig into h... more »is own past, he entered the world of a 23-year-old version of himself and relived his coming-of-age trip.
Ready for the adventure of a lifetime?
Stow away with Rick as we meet a young backpacker who, not knowing where life would take him, travelled from Europe through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and India to Kathmandu.