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 ...

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

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 ...

(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 ...

EVERETT — Prostate cancer may have slowed down European travel expert Rick Steves temporarily but the 69-year-old is back on the road promoting his new book and will soon travel to Europe to film his ...

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 ...