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The Lost Hippie Trail: Retracing The Iconic Route From London To Kathmandu

Retrace the legendary Hippie Trail that once ran from London to Kathmandu. This detailed account explores the key routes, cultural intersections, and the rise and fall of a countercultural journey that reshaped travel in the 1960s–70s

A hipie bus goes through arid landscape Photo: Shutterstock
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During the 1960s and 1970s, a period of as much cultural reform as political unrest, thousands of young Western travellers sought alternative lifestyles, spiritual awakening, and freedom from the established materialist norms. One particular route that gave utterance to the youth desirous of such an engagement went from London all the way to Calcutta, Kathmandu, or Goa, later termed the “Hippie Trail”. It was an overland route largely beginning in London, Amsterdam, or other Western capitals, and it ran through Istanbul, Tehran, Kabul, and Delhi, ultimately ending in some Indian city. It was more than a route—it became a transcontinental cultural phenomenon.

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