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

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

Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer,” features photographs, a foldout map and reproductions of journal ...

Steves and his friend travel mostly by local buses, including an epic journey from Istanbul to Tehran that he described as ...

The guy who got "filthy rich" off helping American tourists travel abroad without fear still refuses to sell out ...

Writer Rick Steves shares his "Hippie Trail" trek, "The Laramie Project" takes the stage, Glassquerade heats up and other events are on the way.

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.” ...

Ranch 45 is hosting a Mardi Gras celebration in Solana Beach from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Fat Tuesday.

(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 ...

Together with a school friend, he was determined to make his way across the so-called Hippie Trail: from Istanbul to Kathmandu, an overland trek by bus and train through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan ...

He’ll also discuss his new book, “On the Hippie Trail,” a scrapbook/memoir that covers the 1978 Istanbul-Kathmandu trip on which he began to form many of his ideas about travel. It’s on ...

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 ...