Some of my most vivid memories from my first visit to Istanbul in the 1970s are of the colorful locals. Scruffy kids sold ...

This personal look back at his younger, freer days, Steves said, is like an "anthropological" peek into who he was as a man, ...

Steves and his friend travel mostly by local buses, including an epic journey from Istanbul to Tehran that he described as three miserable days in a bus driven by a man he dubbed ‘the ...

In 1978 the 23-year-old Rick Steves, then a piano teacher ... set out on a 3,000-mile journey from Istanbul to Kathmandu. It was a long and sometimes strange trip that, he assures us in ...

Details: “On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer” by Rick Steves Avalon Travel, Hatchette Book Group, 2025 Price: $30 ...

For more information on Travel with Rick Steves - including episode descriptions ... adventures along the infamous "Hippie Trail" from Istanbul to Afghanistan to India, all the way to Kathmandu.

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