In Western Australia, fares have been slashed by 50% this year, while children in NSW travel for just $1. But don’t expect a luxurious journey – or a quick one ...

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 ...

THEY call it “slow TV”. SBS has released footage from the strangest Aussie TV event of all time — three hours of The Ghan travelling across the outback. The program consists of three hours of footage ...

Editor’s note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get news about destinations, plus the latest in aviation, food and drink, and where to stay. The Australian outback is ...

The Ghan is an innovative threehour documentary that takes the viewer on an immersive visually stunning journey on Australias most iconic passenger train In Australias first Slow TV documentary The ...

A peek into the past of the famous Ghan train is this week’s reader photo. THIS RELIC OF THE Ghan, the train that runs from Adelaide to Darwin, is captured in this week’s reader photo sent in by Ken ...

AT LAST, 126 YEARS after the north-to-south transcontinental route was conceived, Australia’s legendary Ghan train is running the entire 1,851 miles between Adelaide and Darwin. Named for the ...

From the tropical north to the red deserts of the south, The Ghan crosses the Australian continent in 54 hours — a rolling ...