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 ...

Alice Springs, Australia (CNN) — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Riding The Ghan – the world’s longest sleeper train – in first class was like stepping into a moving luxury hotel through the heart of Australia. In this video, I share what it’s like to journey from ...

As hosts Ant and Dec told the reality contestants, there are more of the grumpy humps in Australia than in any other country in the world. They are regarded as a menace there, destroying vegetation ...

From the tropical north to the red deserts of the south, The Ghan crosses the Australian continent in 54 hours — a rolling hotel through one of the harshest landscapes on Earth.