The Ghan The Ghan The Ghan is an Australian passenger train service between Adelaide, Alice Springs and Darwin on the Adelaide–Darwin railway. Operated by Great Southern Rail, it takes 54 hours to travel the with a four-hour stopover in Alice Springs. The service's name is an abbreviated version of its previous nickname, "The Afghan Express". The nickname is reputed to have been bestowed in 1923 by one of its crews. Some suggest the train's name honours Afghan camel drivers who arrived in Australia in the late 19th century to help the British colonisers find a way to reach the country's interior. A
The Night Train to Kathmandu The Night Train to Kathmandu The Night Train to Kathmandu is a 1988 television film starring Milla Jovovich, Eddie Castrodad and Pernell Roberts. It was directed by Robert Wiemer. Lily is forced to leave Princeton, and with her parents and brother she travels to Nepal. Being unhappy that she had to leave her own country and her old life behind to visit this mystic country with her family. Once there, however, she meets a mysterious Sherpa named Joharv and falls in love with him and the country. Joharv leads Lily as well as her brother and her anthropologist father to