Steves and his friend travel mostly by local buses, including an epic journey from Istanbul to Tehran that he described as three miserable days in a bus driven by a man he dubbed ‘the ...

Or the truly wretched hostels—befouled with ants, cigarette butts, and broken windows—he rented for pennies in Iran and ...

In 1978, Rick Steves had a good thing going at home in ... the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, and Iran underwent ...

Rick Steves is arguably the country’s most beloved ... After traveling as cheaply as possible through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, they finally arrived in India – the destination ...