“Flash Packing” in today’s Hotspots
Whilst traveling in the classic sense has been popular since the days of the Grand Tour, it was to all intents and purposes restricted to the aristocracy, as they were the only ones who could afford such frivolities.
Since the 1960’s, the baby-boomer generation augmented the ‘Backpacking’ revolution that has been de rigueur ever since.
Indeed the stereotypes still inhabit many of the countries on route now – burek in the former Yugoslavia, banana pancakes everywhere, pies in Kathmandu and some seriously strong charas in India.
The hippy overland trail ran through Yugoslavia to the Greek islands, Turkey, some frolicking in pre-revolution Iran – Tehran hosted a pretty wild party scene by all accounts – before hopping over the Border and into poppy heaven in Afghanistan.
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