mineral1 said...Same here, was also horrified at cost and what was being fobbed off as the trip of a lifetime.
Lucky for me, I was purchasing for parents, when I called an Aunt who lived in the Alice. She warned me off.
Reckon my Dad at 80+ would have kicked my coit still , for me being a drongo, and getting tickets, after Aunty told me not to.
Then again, if you have been to Alice and taken a look at the mode of rail carriages our Diggers rode from SA to Darwin during WW2,
the Ghan now would be pure luxury.
There was an Indian couple on the train and they referred to it as the Ganda... look what it means: http://www.ijunoon.com/punjabi/punjabi.aspx?word=ganda
They pronounced it Gand... at least what I heard.
