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

Steves and his friend travel mostly by local buses, including an epic journey from Istanbul to Tehran that he described as ...

So it’s a treat to read his new memoir, On the Hippie Trail, and meet a Steves who is much younger and much more unsure — perhaps in need of a fairy godparent of his own. In 1978, Steves was a ...

Netflix’s The Serpent attempts to capture the twisted reality of Charles Sobhraj’s crimes Having completely missed his real-life rampage across continents in the 1970s, murdering women in bikinis, and ...

(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 ...

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 ...