We were two Canadian girls, aged 18, which was a bit young for this route! Overland from Paris where we had been living in a rogue youth hostel. We wanted to go on a magic bus to Morocco but it never arrived, so instead we got on the Orient Express to Istanbul. Not the classy murder one, the third class cars full of Turkish German guest workers going home. Then a bus being smuggled from there, to arrive in Herat. From there via Kandahar to Kabul, then Khyber Pass to Peshawar. On to India and a boat from Mumbai to Goa. Then Sri Lanka and eventually Kathmandu and hiking the Langtang to a mile or so from Tibet. Hitchhiking back through Afghanistan. Getting back to Europe with truck drivers we found in Teheran. Getting hepatitis and malaria but thankfully nothing else that lasted. Changing our lives forever.
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Yes it changed our lives forever! Wow I couldn't imagine doing that trip at the age of 18. Good for you and you must have had a lot of courage. I was a 23 yr. Old on the trail in 1978. When in the doldrums of work, sleep, repeat... with kids, mortgage etc . It was those adventures that kept me going with a secret smile on the day. ben.