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Hippie Chick is a tender memoir that chronicles a bold search for love that is ultimately found within.

Of course, it wouldn't be a festival without live music too, so Hippie Chic regularly hosts gigs and DJ nights.

In an interview by email, the Brazilian writer reveals that in writing Hippie, he followed the simple advice of Alice in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll: "Begin at the beginning [...] and go on till you come to the end: then stop."

Standing outside his repair shop in Thimi, an old part of Bhaktapur where the streets are lined with workshops that once serviced the hippie buses, Prem Ratna Manandhar says he was saddened to sell his small "German bus" for a paltry 50,000 Nepalese rupees (483 dollars) to a junk yard.

One local, Mary Kasper, organised a ceremony she called the "Death of the Hippie".

It wasn't hippies who got us on the moon, created the internet, wiped out smallpox.

Her exhibition named "Dirty Hippie" included a number of beads, bongs and blunts.

With its Moroccan print it is ever so slightly bohemian but won't leave you feeling like you''re in hippie fancy dress.

The event encourages runners, walkers and even dancers to come celebrate the hippie and disco era as they participate in the themed run that will culminate with a large finish line celebration.

So went the handed-down wisdom which tried to explain the rise of "Hippie Chic'' in the late '60s and '70s when so-called creative and "protest'' fashion began to change things forever.

The title of Jane Fox Hippie's exhibition "The Way of Things" suggests a rather matter-of-fact approach to art making, one rooted in the everyday and concerned more with direct observation--even with a kind of logic--than with flights of imaginative fancy.

"You know them, they are that hippie-dippie couple with the two little boys." There we go again, getting thrown into that same old category that we have been boxed into for the duration of our life together: hippie. What does that even mean?