For carefree 1960s and ‘70s Western kids, that meant clambering onto a ramshackle bus to head east on a mind ... Join us as we retrace the route that inspired the Lonely Planet guidebooks.

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 ... to take the “hippie trail ...

From the mid-1950s to the late 1970s, the hippie trail was a popular overland route for young people from ... They travelled on foot, by bus, by car, van, fire trucks and double-decker buses ...