The alarm woke us at 6:30am and we slowly collected our backpacks and walked to the shuttle to take us to the train. The Ghan was celebrating its 80th birthday running from Adelaide to Alice Springs and completion of the line from Alice Springs to Darwin was only in 2004. There were other random facts that the P.A system spat out throughout the journey. We got on and noticed the feeling of travelling all them years ago.
The crew were wearing old school clothes and we had plenty of leg room to spread ourselves out. At midday we arrived at Katherine train station before setting off again for Alice Springs 4 hours later. The sunset was really nice over the bush with the iron rich red sand, plus what suprised me was the number of trees. I read Digital Fortress by Dan Brown all the way there which managed to take up a considerable amount of time.
Sunday 16th August:
I kept waking up randomly in the night and the train was stationary. Wierd! At 6am the dawn broke and it was amazing to watch as the sky went from black to orange to blue. At 7am the train started moving again and we were on the final leg to Alice Springs.
We arrived at 11am and caught the shuttle bus to Toddy's backpackers where we had our own room, kitchen units and bathroom. After having a look around town it seemed a lot like Darwin except hilly.
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