Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Australian outback is one of the wildest places on Earth. A vast void of deserts and semi-arid wilderness, it stretches across ...

2004-09-05 04:00:00 PDT Aboard the Ghan, Australia-- I'm one of the few people I know who likes to sit facing backward on trains. It appeals to me that I can't see what's coming, that images suddenly ...

Australia is the sixth-largest country in the world, about 30 times the size of the UK, and on this mighty plateau you finally gauge a sense of its mammoth scale. This, the longest straight stretch of ...

Australia is one of the absolute best places to explore by train. If you're craving spectacular scenery served with elegance, The Ghan Expedition is nothing short of extraordinary. Spanning nearly ...

The Ghan train – which makes the epic journey across Australia between Darwin and Adelaide, via Alice Springs – just got an upgrade courtesy of design studio Woods Bagot. Having already transformed ...

It's still dark when we set out. I'm woefully under caffeinated, and yet still fizzing with excitement; it's impossible not to be. As we arrive at our destination, I see I'm not the only one. The ...

Australia’s most iconic rail trip, the Ghan, runs north from Adelaide through the harsh deserts of the center on a transcontinental journey that stretches more than 1,800 miles all the way to the ...

The Ghan is an innovative threehour documentary that takes the viewer on an immersive visually stunning journey on Australias most iconic passenger train In Australias first Slow TV documentary The ...

Life finds a tempo all of its own in the sleek cocoon speeding between Darwin and Adelaide. THE SUN HAS JUST SET, and the local watering hole is bustling. Barmaid Sonja Lemondine is trading jokes with ...

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