The Hippie Trail

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In the 1960s and 70s, thousands of westerners travelled to India and Nepal by overland bus. They were searching for adventure, enlightenment and cheap hashish. Simon Watts talks to Richard Gregory, who did the Hippie Trail in 1974.

PHOTO: Richard Gregory in Kabul in 1974 (Private Collection)

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1:09.8	with me Simon Watts and as part of our series of programs on the history of global tourism
1:16.0	today we're going back to the heyday of the hippie trail which took travelers by bus
1:21.3	from Western Europe to Asia.
1:25.0	In 1974, Richard Gregory set out on the journey of a lifetime which is even immortalized in song.
1:34.4	I was looking for temptation on the road to Shanghai.
1:40.6	I was 18 years old I was looking for adventure. I saw an advert in what we call the underground press and it
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