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 ...

Crossing Australia on The Ghan isn’t just travel — it’s a full-blown luxury adventure through the outback. This First Class sleeper train experience shows what passengers really get, from private ...

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 ...

Ever dreamt of exploring Australia? We did it on a luxury train! Australia's iconic rail journey, The Ghan has been on my ...

Australia. I finally got there, the last of the seven continents for me to visit. I didn’t start traveling with that goal in mind, but here I was in Sydney after that long, long flight from Los ...

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 ...

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