The London-Calcutta Bus Service, also known as the Hippie Route, was a bus service by operator Albert Travel, taking passengers from London to Calcutta, now Kolkata in India. Article continues ...

In 1956, the first such bus set out from London with ... it became the most well-known company on the ‘hippie trail’, as this London-to-India route came to be called. However, as Gregory ...

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CHIEF INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Now, you must have heard of the Hippie Trail, a legendary route for travelers ... one of them involved a bus ride, I think from Turkey to Iran.