The Australian outback is one of the wildest places on Earth. A vast void of deserts and semi-arid wilderness, it stretches across about 80% of the country’s interior — an area roughly equivalent to ...

SYDNEYSYDNEY — One of Australia’s most popular tourist trains, The Ghan, derailed after hitting a cow in the Outback, train company officials said Monday. No passengers were hurt in the incident, ...

Penry Buckley visited the Silver City in the footsteps of the classic Australia movie. The 13-and-a-half hour train to Sydney proved more gruelling than glamorous ...

Every Thursday, Saturday and Sunday afternoon, the last platform of Sydney`s huge, vaulted 19th-Century railroad station is the scene of farewells as worthy of the 19th Century as the setting.

After closing its borders for almost two years due to the pandemic, Australia is back open for visitors and its 100-year-old train traversing the outback is once again ready for international ...

ALICE SPRINGS, Australia – The trip began in Adelaide, a major city, and ended here, an Outback town. In between, there was only the train known as the Legendary Ghan and my compartment in it. The ...

The Red Center, Australia – Ten days, one wallaby, no kangaroos. My fantasy – adorable ‘roos galumphing around every bush in the Outback – was just that. Camels – wild ones, at that – were another ...

This is the moment a Land Rover pulls a 110-tonne train through the Australian outback. In an impressive video, professional driver John Biletto uses the Discovery car to pull a huge land train ...

Australia's red centre may be vast and empty, but Lucy Rickard finds she can't take her eyes off it. It's the experience of a lifetime for many, riding the Ghan all the way from the balmy top end to ...

O N   B O A R D  T H E   G H A N, Australia, March 4 -- As the sun rises over redsandy hills scattered with spiky spinifex bushes and stuntedeucalyptus trees, the harsh beauty of the ...

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