On the Hippie Trail with Rick Steves
Enjoy our live Monday Night Travel party with this video recorded on January 13, 2025.
In the 1970s, the ultimate trip for any backpacker was the storied "Hippie Trail" from Istanbul to Kathmandu. As a 23-year-old, Rick made the trek, and like a travel writer in training, he documented it all. Leaping off a moving train in Yugoslavia, getting lost in Lahore, getting high for the first time in Herat, battling leeches in Pokhara, making the scene on Freak Street in Kathmandu…it's all in Rick's 60,000-word journal, which is now his newest book. To celebrate the release of On the Hippie Trail, stow away with Rick as he shares photos and tells tales from his trip of a lifetime.