Category : Alice Springs
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From North to South on the Ghan.
There are two luxury trains that bisect the Australian continent: the Indian Pacific, which crosses east-west between Sydney and Perth, and the Ghan, which goes north-south, between Darwin and Adelaide....
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Crisscrossing Australia on the Indian Pacific and the Ghan
(This is Part Three of a story I wrote for the Dallas Morning News, recording some of the events that took place as I rode the Indian Pacific, east to west...
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Criss-Crossing Australia on the Indian Pacific and the Ghan.
(The following is the first part of a story I wrote for the Dallas Morning News relating my experiences on Australia’s two trans-continental trains.) As early as the mid-1800s, Australian...
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And Then There’s ‘A Town Called Alice’
Once again we’re back in the middle of the trackless hot and dry area that makes up most of the middle of the Australian continent. The first to successfully settle...
