• Introduction
• 1. The Bergen Line
• 2. The Blue Train
• 3. Denali Star Train
• 4. Eastern & Oriental Express
• 5. The Ghan
• 6. The Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express
• 7. Hiram Bingham Train
• 8. Napa Valley Wine Train
• 9. TER Méditerranée
• 10. Tokaido Shinkansen

The Ghan

In the 1800's, emigrant Afghans on camelback sparked development in Aussie's remote desert Outback, acting as guides on expeditions and starting construction on a dream transcontinental railway. That dream has since been realized in the form of The Ghan, an 1850-mile, 2-night train ride operated by Australia’s Great Southern Railway, and fashioned from the tracks of those pioneer cameleers. Travel from the wine capital of historic Adelaide, brushing north past red sandstone cliffs, gorges, waterholes, and rock formations, keeping watch for wild camels, dingoes, brumbies (wild horses), and kangaroos along the way – an overall landscape that’ll have you exclaiming “There’s no place like Oz”! Disembark at Outback capital Alice Springs, where you can ride a camel or visit an opal mine – before hopping back aboard, slicing on through northern aboriginal territory, and stopping last at the cosmopolitan city of Darwin, lined by tropical coastline.

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