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 ...

Short of cash but looking for adventure? For carefree 1960s and ‘70s Western kids, that meant clambering onto a ramshackle bus to head east on a mind-blowing journey through new cultures ...

had forgotten about his travel journal from that 1978 trip. He rediscovered it during the Covid-19 lockdown and lightly revised it for “On the Hippie Trail.” Amusing, poignant and sometimes ...

His new book, "On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer," out Feb. 4, provides an "anthropological dig into his past," Steves said in a recent interview with ...

In those days, there were no formal guidebooks published on how to take the “hippie trail,” and of course no Internet, either. Travel guru Rick Steves with his 2025 book,” On the Hippie ...

Rick Steves’s 1978 journey from Istanbul to Kathmandu reflects a spirit of edgy wanderlust at odds with his image as a folksy travel guru.