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 ...

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 ...

The Ghan: Australia’s Greatest Train Journey is an Australian-first foray into the ‘Slow TV’ movement. Three hours, no breaks; just the viewer, the tracks beneath, and stunning landscapes of the ...

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’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 ...

THEY call it “slow TV”. SBS has released footage from the strangest Aussie TV event of all time — three hours of The Ghan travelling across the outback. The program consists of three hours of footage ...

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 ...

“Do you know why Australians pronounce Darwin as Daaawin and Brisbane as Brisbin?” Our dinner partner shared a big smile and, with a wave of his salad fork, delivered the punchline. “Flies! You can’t ...

Jackie, our conductor, announced: ‘We’ll shortly be reaching our final destination, Darwin. Passengers in the front coaches will be arriving at 2.30pm; if you’re at the back of the train it’s going to ...

The town of Alice Springs in the middle of Australia is likely to have received more rain today than in the whole of last year. Hundreds of foreign tourists had their travel plans thrown into jeopardy ...

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