Train Trips

... Few words can adequately describe the Taj, which seldom fails to move anyone who sees it. Leaving Agra, we took the overnight train to Bandavgarh National Park, which is known for having one of the densest populations of tigers in India. Here we had ...

Train Trips I really like travelling by train but one of my pet hates is people who spend the entire trip on the phone doing business calls.  I really think that there should be compartments for this - the occasional call is ok, but when they go ...

... food and places of interest our trip flew by we were also fed very well most Indian people bring homemade food with them on trips so we we offered everything and we accepted gratefully offering cake and biscuits back . Farno was in heaven with all the ...

... , and was travelling on my british passport anyway, but unfortunately my canadian friends didnt know and were promptly kicked off the train, with the macedonian guy translating. It was roughly 3am, and we were in a tiny village on the border with customs ...

Due to my decision to move on to India I will only get a brief glance at Ljubljana and Slovenia ... but the great thing about train trips is that you get to see a whole cross-section of a country as you travel through it. The stunning scenary on this ...

At the end of our overland trip from St Petersburg to Hong Kong, and thought it fitting to add a few words about our epic train trips. Moscow - Irkutsk Before the 4 day non-stop trip from Moscow to Irkutsk my biggest worry was how to wash my hair in a ...

... ; I've always had a EuroPass good for a bunch of trips over a few weeks.  This trip, there were only going to be about 4 train trips in all.  I find the cost of trains now is high: we spent 125 Euros [a bit over $200] from Cordoba to Madrid ...

... eyes . She told me Tibet is really beautiful place and is worth traveling.The third day we cought on the train to Tibet. Train trips scenery  is wonderful , mountains are full of green trees. Schedule & Ticket Options The train leaves ...

... Firstly, the trains in China are really good. On time, cheap, reasonably clean and connect to just about everywhere. All the train trips I took were overnight so also counted for my accomodation for a night. Being the only westerner on the train most ...

... No bread. Man was I pissed. Moscow time - 5 hours BEHIND Remember what I said in Ulaan Baatar about cutting it fine for our train trips and how one of these days it would come back and haunt us? Yeah, well that wasn't likely to happen today, that's ...

... most of the trip with the group eating, playing uno etc. It was a long trip, and I arrived in Chengdu over Chinese train trips. Intrepid has provided me with an opportunity to travel on hard class, but it would of been interesting experiencing the soft ...

... truly varying American landscape and also a great way to meet people. People say the California Zephyr is one of the most beautiful train trips in all of North America. As you climb through the heart of the Rockies, and further west through the ...

... Matsumoto City that we needed to spend an extra $35 dollars (each way) for the express portion. In the future, I'll check-out train trips on Hyperdia (http://www.hyperdia.com/en/), which computes prices, before I go. Anyway, I didn't let that get in the ...

... on time heading for the second stop and I was nodding off in the seat even before I the hour was up. What is it with train trips and nodding off? Also while we were running alongside of the Hudson that I managed to see a Bald Eagle sitting on a ...

My previous train trips within continental Europe have been always the second class seating. The worst was the one from Napoli to Rome. Even I booked a seat in a non-smoking cart, there were never short of any smokers. The high-speed train connecting ...

... they are chasing each other.. We arrived in Serbia yesterday after traveling from Krakow the day before.. we did a marathon 17 hours and three train trips.. and we got in at 7.30am... had a snooze.. and headed out to Kate's hotel.. Tash and i had to ...

... . What a mission indeed! Lets just say it took two trips to the info help desk at the Nanning train station, followed by two trips to the actual ticket booking booth and about eight different Chinese ticketing officers to finally get ourselves booked on a ...

Leaving Kuala Lumpor today at 10pm by sleeper train to get to Butterworth for the island of Penang It cost 40 ringits about £9.00 and have a top bunk for the 8 hr journey. Top Tip!! Book a lower berth in the centre of the train, you dont get woken by ...

... . It's not like New York, where every building is really tall. It's only in certain districts (basically around popular train stations) that tall buildings appear. So a panorama of Tokyo looks like a sea of these small apartments with small patches of ...

... 22 November - on the last trip we saw a barking deer [muntjac] for the first time here.   On all the trips we were well rewarded with sightings of pretty, unusual wild flora not easily seen elsewhere.  This year the monsoons have virtually ...

... without him we had no chance and i thank him sooooooooo much, but traveler beware he haunts the railway for potenial clients. The train ride was an experiance...the type that you remember for years, had to laugh, the locals dived into the train ...