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 ...

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.

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 ...

In 1978 the 23-year-old Rick Steves, then a piano teacher, decided to “wallop my norms” and, along with his pal and future ...

It was a long and sometimes strange trip that, he assures us in “On the Hippie Trail,” was worth ... including a Turkish bus driver who resembles a “crazy Barbary pirate” and at one ...