What luck, we find out that today is the Christmas Pageant. It is the official start of the Holiday season in Adelaide. The Parade is 2nd only to the Macy’s parade as the largest in the world, it is said that the start of the parade finishes before the end of the parade starts. We…
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We’re finishing up the Ghan today. It’s interesting how the landscape has changed over the last half a day – from red dirt and scrub grass to rolling wheat fields. We’ve gotten to bond with many of our travelling companions – good folk all. For some, bidding goodbye is tough (Marcus from Queensland and Maryann…
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We had a somewhat restful night of sleep trying to get used to the rhythms of the train again. After breakfast, we have a stop in Alice Springs where we explore the sites and history of the town. Alice Springs was crucial to the development of the telegraph system linking Australia to the rest of…
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The Ghan. We’re off today for one of the world’s epic train trips from Darwin in Australia’s ‘Top End’ to Adelaide in Southern Australia. This is a really long train – 971 meters (about 6/10ths of a mile). The trip is some 1,850 miles and takes 3 days. Not far south of Darwin things get pretty…
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