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 ...

Forget about being crammed on a suburban train, the real romance of rail is found through luxury long-distance inland trips or journeys back in time.

For nearly a century, the Ghan railway has connected passengers to difficult-to-reach corners of the Australian Outback, traveling past sacred Aboriginal sites, through vast desert plains dotted with ...

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