Outback to Tropics
April 3rd 2007 We caught the legendary 'Ghan' railway from Adelaide to Alice Springs. Travelling in second class it turned out to be rather less exotic and legendary than we had hoped. The train is named after the Afghans who ran the original camel trains across the Australian centre from Adelaide to Darwin. The journey took about 19 hours overnight and we arrived in Alice Springs to driving rain and temperatur
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