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I travelled overland from UK in \'73 accompanied by a drummer friend - let\'s call him Boz. Crossed the Channel in a Bristol Superfreighter from Lydd.
Trains to Istanbul Pudding Shop. Met Afghans with two old Mercedes buses who offered a lift to Kabul for $5 each. When I laughed they upped the price to $10 and wouldn\'t go back down.
Completely insane trip. First, one bus caught fire crossing the big bridge from Istanbul. Then stuck in Ankara for a couple of days when the Afghans renewed a passport.
It got really crazy after that but this input field is ***ed up and clips both sides of the text.
Oh well, not surprising really.
Roy

Denmark

Dear Hans,
Thank you for this wonderful webpage. I have just finished a novel on The Hippie Trail (in Danish) and would very much like to use your image \"Pagoda in Kathmandu\" (under \"On the Hippie Trail: Nepal\"). It would fit really well in the final chapters.
Naturally I understand if you prefer not to.
Please let me know.
Best regards,
Søren

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England

Hi Hans

I am helping a man called David Shirreff who has written a novel about a group of people travelling on the hippy Trail in the 1970s. I have an image for the front cover but I wanted some travel images that I could scatter across the reverse side. Would it possible to use some of your wonderful images for this? I quite understand if you would prefer not to. I can send you the book content which is in English. Best wishes Adam mr.adam.preston@gmail.com

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Nederland

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France

Dear Sir,
I am a French researcher and I need a tiny information for a paper I\'m writing about Pakistan tourism (info that I can’t find whatever I do and wherever I look).
Would you know by any chance in which year did Commonwealth citizens need a visa to enter Pakistan ? I know that in the early seventies, they didn’t need any, but when did this change ?
Thanks a lot in advance for any help you could provide and sorry for bothering you.
Cordially,
Michael Gabout

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Zoetermeer

Leuke website met een stukje geschiedenis over de ZHESM:+1:

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London, England, now France.

1967/68 London. Europe. Turkey. Iran. Afghanistan. Pakistan. Worked freighter passage via Cape of GH back to Istanbul.

Anyone there at that time? Gulhane Hotel Istanbul. Bamiyan Hotel Kabul...

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Canada

Another recollection on a couple of trips in mid seventies...from Pudding Shop to Amir Kabir to Sigi\'s to to the guest house above the Pig Street...........
Good memories, sorry, I should have seen more, but on the hippie trail it was a happy \"childhood\".

Glad there are blogs around to think back about those times.

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Borculo

We zijn een groep boeren en burgers die zeer geinteresseerd zijn in het doen en laten van de wolf. En met name in de problemen die het dier geeft. Met name het verscheuren van (landbouw)huisdieren.

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Alkmaar, Nederland

Leuk om een de foto\'s van iemand te zien die ook de hippy-trail heeft gedaan. We zijn een uitstervend ras. Nog een paar jaar en er is niemand die uit eigen ervaring kan spreken.

Den Haag.

Heb je in jou verzameling een scherpe Foto van de Spoorlijn die liep achter de Alexanderkazerne te Den Haag die eindigde bij Station Scheveningen en begon vanaf Station Rotterdam-Hofplein.

Dag Hans,

Ik werd gewezen op jouw website over de waterlopen in Den Haag en omgeving. Ik ben met name geïnteresseerd in de Broeksloot, waar de tuinderij \'het Paradijs\' van mijn grootvader (Theodorus van Veen) aan lag. Ik ben bezig met een familieverhaal en ik heb inmiddels 5 schilderijen opgespoord van het Paradijs.
Kun je mij iets meer vertellen over het schilderij waar jij naar verwijst?
Alvast hartelijk dank. Bettie van Veen

Nederland

Dag Hans,

Mijn naam is Steven Smit en ik werk voor het programma Andere Tijden van de NTR. Wij zijn op het moment bezig met de research voor een item over de hippie trail. Graag zou ik je hier wat vragen over stellen. Zou u contact met mij willen opnemen? dat kan via: steven.smit@ntr.nl

Alvast hartelijk dank,
Steven Smit
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New Zealand

I was on the overland classic Hippie Trail in 1970 from London to Kashmir. The bus broke down in Turkey and I completed the rest of the journey by local transport.

Luck

Robson Valley East, British Columbia, Canada

1972 Flew round trip New York - London England for $190US open ticket. Overland from there to Delhi, India before illness forced me to fly home.

One day I should write it all down...

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Australia

I was later, in 1979, so at the end of the phenomenon.

But I have recently looked at some photos I had digitised from my travels in Nepal and India in 1979 and into 1982 (after a computer crash forced me to go through decades of computer records!) and I have just started looking for a forum/website where travellers from the 60’s 70s and early 80s post pictures of themselves and the people they met, to try and hook up again - even for a brief exchange - simply to relive the joy and innocence of those times, even if it is just a brief sentimental indulgence. I don’t have a lot of photos (as you say, it wasn’t cool then to view life through a lens, which kids these days don’t understand) but there are some people who I wouldn’t mind saying Hi to…even if just once.

Are you aware of any kind of forum where that happens?

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Born in NYC, grew up in Europe and now live in California

Love your website Hans. I did the hippie trial twice once during 1975 and during 1978 during a gap year. Most important and developmental event of my life. been working since 1982 which is interrupting my travels. Soon to retire and hit the road again. Unfortunately the hippie trail is too dangerous now so it will have to be SE Asia.

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London

Hi Hans, i\'m putting together a documentary for BBC Radio 2 celebrating the stories and music of the era and wondered if you\'d like to take part ? Rory Maclean is part of it too. All the best, Mark

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Minnesota USA

Thank you for the memories. Left New York City in January \'73, went overland to Kathmandu, occasional public transport, sometimes freak buses. Drifted into SE Asia, took a ship to Perth, drove to Cairns and Melbourne, island hopped to Chile (with a week in Easter Island), took buses home via Argentina and Peru, Panama, Belize, returned in October tired, ill, stressed and thrilled with a lifetime of memories. And never again did I trust what governments said about what was happening in the world..

Eventually got a doctorate in geography but found little work--too cynical. Happily married, children, grandchildren too. Still travel rough when I can (bus from the Dominican Republic to Haiti when I was 61). China, Albania, Tunisia...still going. And every now and then think of the light as the sun set and I stood on the balcony of the Amir Kabir hotel in Tehran, or what it was like driving with a local friend into the northern mountains of Afghanistan, and I remember a world that was.

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Berkeley, California

Traveled from Feb 1, 1968 to April 20, 1969. Ethiopa, europe, overland through India, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia. A transformative experience. Except for visiting a peace corps friend in Adi Caieh, Eritrea for 3 months, I had no idea where the next destination would lead.