The 1,000th Blog Post - The Ghan.

This is the 1,000th blog posted since I started our travel-blogging in March 2006, since which time Gek and I have  set up  home in 4 different  countries, visited an additional  10 countries, some more than twice, and traveled too many miles to count!!   This is our third visit to Australia, specifically to 'do' the Rail and Rock, ie, ride The Ghan Train and visit Uluru.

This is some train, with 29 carriages stretching back from the two engines for  600 metres, ie over half a kilometre!!  Thankfully, the dining cars are in the centre of the train.

The view for 1,500 km.  Very surreal with classical music as a soundtrack to the video that is your cabin window.

There are so many termite hills out there,  literally millions of them and they are the only hills for hundreds of kilometres in any direction.

One stop off and coach trip included in the Rail and Rock package on the way to Alice , is for the Katherine Gorge Cruise.  At the jetty to board our river transport, bats, big bats hang like fruits from the tree branches.

The Gorge.  The dry air and the bright sunlight plays havoc with your camera's metering, so dark and so bright in the same framing.  But at least one decent shot taken.  This is crocodile country. 

I didn't know that this was going to be our 1,000th blog but by some strange serendipity, here we two are at dinner on The Ghan.  This train ride is up there with our rail ride across the Gobi Desert which we did in 2008 and is a must do if you are ever in Australia's Northern Territory.  Loved every minute of it.