To learn about yourself explore the world around you. 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. In HIPPIE
he tells the story of Paulo a skinny Brazilian with a goatee and long hair setting off on a
journey in search of a deeper meaning for his life. He travels on the famous 'Death Train to
Bolivia' then on to Peru later hitchhiking through Chile and Argentina. 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. 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. Together with their fellow travellers they embark on a trip
aboard the Magic Bus heading across Europe and Central Asia to Kathmandu. For everyone the
journey is transformative. 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.
