However this is no longer a 'hippie' bus company by any mainstream definition. Our coaches are newer, safety is #1 priority, the food is contemporary and the coach is clean...Everyone is welcome ...

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 ...