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.
