I suppose people who experienced the hippie stage of life might get more from this but Paulo tells you what happened fact after fact without really delving into the whys and wherefors. It’s a fascinating travel guide on the one hand and we get to see and experience some wonderful places but as a memoir I got a bit lost as it reads like a gap year diary going from one thought to another with little direction. Home of the Dalai Lama and a place for many pilgrims and people seeking for more out of life. They drive through Belgrade and Yugoslavia and visit many iconic ‘hippie spots’ in various places – but are arrested in Austria! Their final destination? Kathmandu in Nepal They travel through much of Europe without stopping and indeed in some countries he explains they are not allowed to stop for fear of getting arrested or questioned.
The other is the less glamourous Piccadilly in London. It’s a meeting place for people looking for who and what they are in life. One of two centres of the Earth according to Coelho is Amsterdam’s Dam Square where much of the story originates. There he meets Karla, a Dutch woman in her twenties who has been waiting to find the ideal companion to accompany her on the fabled hippie trail to Nepal. In the famous Dam Square in Amsterdam he finds young people playing music, while discussing sexual liberation, the expansion of consciousness and the search for an inner truth. He then goes Hitchhiking through Chile and Argentina. Take the famous ‘Death Train to Bolivia’, then on to Peru
Travel Guide Where to travel to on your own journey in search of a deeper meaning for your life. For Paulo and Karla it is a life-defining love story that leads to choices that will set the course of the rest of their lives. Together with their fellow travellers, they embark on a trip aboard the Magic Bus, heading across Europe and Central Asia to Kathmandu.įor everyone, the journey is transformative. He travels on the famous ‘Death Train to Bolivia’, then on to Peru, later hitchhiking through Chile and Argentina. Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, bestselling author Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to relive the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social order.
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