In the opinion of Rick Steves, "Istanbul is one of the world's greatest cities, period." It's the largest city in the country of Turkey and is considered part of Europe, but it's partially located ...

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

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 ...

(In this exclusive excerpt from Rick Steves’ “On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer,” Steves leaves his friend Gene Openshaw at a hotel to recover from ...

Whether you first encountered Rick Steves via his popular line of guidebooks ... “hippie trail,” taking a 3,000-mile journey from Istanbul to Kathmandu, Nepal, through areas that had become ...

Rick Steves, the one-man brand behind a European ... “On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer,” is an unvarnished peek into the notes Steves kept and ...

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 ...