Kathmandu Ran Electric Buses 50 Years Ago — Then Let Them Rust
Kathmandu had electric trolley buses powered by hydropower from 1975 — 12,000 riders a day — until neglect, bl...
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A German Photographer's 1991-93 Road Trips Caught Vietnam Just Before the Tourists Arrived
German photographer Hans-Peter Grumpe's 1991-93 photos of Vietnam capture empty Nha Trang beaches, a moss-cove...
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The Rzepin Train Disaster: A Cold War Rail Crash That May Never Have Happened
In 1952 Western media reported a Soviet military train disaster near Rzepin, Poland, killing 160. No proof has...
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Jack London's 1906 Honeymoon in Cuba: A Writer's Caribbean Escape, Retold Through Rare Photos
Jack London honeymooned in Jamaica and Cuba in 1906, photographing Havana, Santiago and San Juan Hill. His rar...
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Rick Steves on Afghanistan in 1978: The Hippie Trail Journey That Can Never Be Repeated
Rick Steves revisits his 1978 Hippie Trail crossing of Afghanistan — Herat, Kabul, the Khyber Pass — and the e...
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A 23-Year-Old Rick Steves on the Hippie Trail: The Mashhad-to-Herat Bus Ride, 1978
Rick Steves shares his 1978 Hippie Trail journal: the chaotic bus ride from Mashhad, Iran, to Herat, Afghanist...
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A Young Rick Steves' 1978 Herat Journal Is a Window Into a Lost Afghanistan
Rick Steves' 1978 Hippie Trail diary from Herat, Afghanistan: $5 bus rides, bazaar haggling and a city now los...
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Bikes, Bazaars and a $12 Mink: Rick Steves' 1978 Herat Journal
Rick Steves shares his 1978 Hippie Trail journal: cycling Herat's mud lanes, haggling a $12 mink, and Afghanis...
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Rick Steves' 1978 Hippie Trail Journal: A 14-Hour Bus Ride Across Afghanistan
Rick Steves' 1978 journal revisits the Hippie Trail: a 14-hour bus ride from Herat to Kabul, cheap dinners, cu...
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Crossing the Khyber Pass by bus in 1978: a backpacker's last ride out of Kabul
Rick Steves' 1978 journal recalls a backpacker bus ride from Kabul over the Khyber Pass to Pakistan — a Hippie...
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