No reports of damage or casualties so far as tremors from quake, with epicenter in neighboring Tibet, was felt in Kathmandu Valley - Anadolu Ajansı

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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 by a man he dubbed ‘the

(In this exclusive excerpt from Rick Steves’ “On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer,” Steves leaves his friend Gene Openshaw at a hotel to recover from a persistent stomach ailment and sets out to explore Kabul, Afghanistan, on his own.)

In his latest travels, he is quickly cross-crossing the U.S. in a two-week tour to promote his new book, “On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer.”

He wrote it in 1978 when, at 23, he put his piano teaching practice on pause to travel on the “hippie trail,” taking a 3,000-mile journey from Istanbul to Kathmandu, Nepal, through areas that ...

The map below shows the location of Istanbul and Kathmandu. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between Kathmandu and Istanbul. Load Map What is the travel ...