Archive for: July 2008

July 31, 2008

Historical backpacking map

Filed under: Australia - 31 Jul 2008

Map of travel destination popular with backpackers
This is a map of Tully and district, in north Queensland, Australia, a town which was pretty popular with backpackers in the hippies in the 60’s era and still is. 
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July 30, 2008

Backpacking with gun

Filed under: Australia - 30 Jul 2008

Backpacking with gun
It isn’t essential to carry a gun when you’re backpacking, it’s just insurance
I carried this rifle around with me when I was backpacking around Australia in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. It’s a  .22 rimfire Anschutz rifle, and …

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My oh Myanmar

Filed under: Myanmar - 30 Jul 2008

Flight to Myanmar
`We flew with UBA, United Burma Airlines. This makes it seem like a conscious decision, as if we had plenty of choice, as if we’d thoroughly researched the world’s leading airlines for reliability and customer service and had finally …

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  • About hippy backpacking

    Hippy Backpacking features articles and photos about backpacking in the hippies in the 60's era and more recent backpacking stuff. Like, post stone age. The posts cover - or will cover - cheap, ok, budget -travel in Australia, Singapore, Malaya, Thailand, Laos and Burma. There are - or will be - posts about travel in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, and the middle east, along with Europe. There will also be a couple of posts about New York City in the 60's.

    The hippy trail

    This was the overland route from Australia to (usually) England and vice-versa taken by backpackers. Only some of these countries were stops on the trail; Burma, the middle east, eastern Europe and (for geographical reasons) the United States weren't considered regular stops.

About the hippy backpacking header banner

It's a sticker that was handed out after a screening of the hippy movie `Easy Rider' at a movie house in Sydney, Australia, in the late 60's, and the profile in the banner is a profile of Dennis Hopper, the star of the movie.