Safarnameh: A Traveller's Journey Along the Hippie Trail

Uses first-hand accounts to better understand the experience of those who traveled the popular overland trek from Turkey to India in the 1960s and 70s.

Safarnameh—an Urdu word meaning “an account of a journey”—is the story of Trevor Harrison’s overland trip from Turkey to India, a route taken by somewhere between two and six million young people from Western countries during the 1960s and 1970s until the Iranian Revolution and subsequent regional conflicts rendered the overland trek impossib...