The Ghan

The Ghan train ride - part 1

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July 28th 2010
With the excellent trip to Kakadu still reverberating around me along with the beer from last night, I got up and made my way past the deeply helpful Italian lesbian working the desk who had helped me figure out how to get the alarm working on Antony’s phone, as well as lending me a sleeping bag and towel for Kakadu, out onto pre-dawn Darwin’s streets to the Greyhound station where a typically ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Alice Springs

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more