Himalayan Times (1954)

Six

?,iir.nUt!un Jim"

March 21, 1951

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AN AMERICAN STUDENT HITCH HIKER &. ^ ft**ES;

__ primitive circumstances,

u&hapti sleeping in a truck

Mr. Otto Zaff, an. tan where he spent a w, ek "^'^Sir!

American student who Sen proving- to Ind.a may have^ gott.o .J U

has spent the last four atld has been here since with »_ £W

years Studying in Paris .hen He .aid, *I bft» : ^ on the 1W*

and Heidelberg. (Germany, found . Indm extremely- home. OnOO OflUW Way ,

is now touring Ind.a Mr. imere.tm,*. the people to Kara,!,. ,^ <«•»

Z,ff had -a scholarship very, very friendly and Un I nbal Chief pM*wlp»

and* was Studying langua- usually hospitable'' " op '» enormous g e.t

i u i • house a alone his rtuick

ges. in hurope and holds Tha journ h(l, been m,|rg u;

an European degreo equi- B interesting for the desert home, set me

valent to an M. A. degree t(iw|lM ,,afl w„,„, a,. ||« *•« gue,t

He is on a world .pisinted with all classes bJJ0M a„ al()ne ttn,| ha,|

hitch-hiking tour and has of people in the different _ „opt of wnrMJti and

travelled by car and truck countries. /Of his' mode V#)J) a vc|lic|e at my

all the way , from Paris 0f travelling he said, di |. I have recently

through trance, Germany, "SometimesW rides would th(1 „,„.„, tvf thV

Austria. (.'ommmiiHt Yugo. ,,, withWry ypopr truck- Maharaja of I'a.ia'a and

slavuv Greece, Turkey,. drivers or wealthy peope t,Hiua h,m to be v, rv kind.

Lebanon, ^Jordan, j never know who ,f t ,B<| ^

Iraq, ran, Pakistan Af- w0.lld be com .,,, srpund ,h|> , , fo,|n<J lm.

-gbamstan to India Here 1)eDt] and t,,at lh M, ; .

m India l,o hras visited,, eXoW,ing imet;ng people '

.Ararjtsar Ambala. Simla, fr(,m varied walks of life. '"teres n ^

New Delhi. Agra, Gwalior, \ have been able to come • While studying in

Ajiinta, Ellora, Bombay into close contact with Europe, Mr. Zaff travelled

and re'urn A total r.f the pe0ple „f their res- all over the Continent via

172 different rides by (ll.ctive countries for I "hitch hking" us far

private cars, trucks camels, would eat the fond of the north as Finland and

, ex-carts, donkeys, motor- natives or sleep wherever south to Spain Portugal

cycles tractors and prac- ,a M cou(d be provided. and N. Africa. this

twa ly everything imagi- • Since I am travelling light manner of trav. I is very

nable wjth the result that . (two smttll baps alu) |10 common among stud. tits

transportation has not bedding) this has been a in Europe as we'd as

even cost one rupee for problem in Pakistan and America. However, star-

a distance of. 13,000-miles. fndia. However due to Hng from Yugoslavia am!

On Sept. 2oth he.left the hospitality . of these extending throughout all

Heiderberg' where he had wonderful people, some- ■ the countries traversed

hist studied And arrived in . thing would always turn including India. 'I he peo-

Pakistan within five/weeks up—a mattress from one plo are usually baffled to

H-re the traveller spent source, blankets from'ano- see a foreigner sitting on

approximately four weeks ther. So, I was always Ins walking .-tick scat.un

before going to Afghanis- weH taken euro of American Hag on his bag

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