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Clive Anderson takes a humorous look at the contradictions and confusions of present-day China as he makes his way from Hong Kong, via Shanghai, Beijing and the Great Wall, to end up in Ulaan Baatar in Mongolia.
GRJ Season 2 Ep3
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Duration : 0:4:59
Great Railway Journeys of the World, Series 1, Episode 6 (S01E06), first broadcast by BBC television 4th December 1980.
Historian Michael Wood travels on the Blue Train, the most luxurious train in the world, and follows the trail of the empire builder, Cecil Rhodes, from Cape Town to Victoria Falls. His journey takes him through the great wilderness of the Karoo and the diamond fields of Kimberley to the gold city of Johannesburg and its sprawling offspring, Soweto. He sees, at first hand, how the settling of South Africa has produced apartheid. Leaving South Africa, Wood travels through Botswana around the edge of the Kalahari and into a war. During filming in December 1979, Zimbabwe-Rhodesia was still a battlefield as the politicians argued out a cease-fire agreement in London.
Duration : 0:7:1
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The Orient Express is world-renowned luxury travel service at its best! Since the 1920′s when the very first Orient Express carriage was created, it already captured the acceptance of the people. The people loved the carriage, being a luxurious, extremely posh and comfortable carriage that offers them the best experience unparalleled with other train service providers.
The Northern Belle Carriage Journey
Stop over to a stately home or castle with the Northern Belle train ride. You will be welcomed, accommodated in and served by the service staff in crisply starched uniforms. The Orient Express has the shining color and green interiors. Feast on a sumptuous gourmet meal especially prepared by a skilled chef matched with a bottle of champagne as the carriage slowly slips by to your next destinations.
The Orient Express Murder Mystery by Agatha Christie
The experience of the Orient-Express Murder Mystery merges a collection of amazingly beautiful landscapes along England’s countryside with a perfect plot of a murder. You may go around Brighton’s porch and eat the sumptuous food served with champagne as you try to find out the real culprit in Agatha Christie’s murder story. The elements of mystery and intrigue, for unknown reasons, go together in the Orient Express. World-renowned authors including Agatha Christie, Ian Fleming, Graham Greene and Bram Stoker share one thing in common. They all shared their iconic characters they used for daytime journeys; thus, raising the train’s credibility for dramatic style.
On Board the Orient Express’ British Pullman
Experience luxury train journeys at once from the golden age with an Orient Express trip! You may choose to board and experience the travel delights offered by the British Pullman. Learn and understand the significant role of the British Pullman carriages in the train history of the world. There were so many British Pullman carriages that were mixed up in significantly important historical events of the country. This included the State visit of France’s Presidents Charles de Gaulle during the1960s.
Did you know that the man responsible for creating all these beautifully engineered carriages of the Orient Express named George Mortimer Pullman, was a school dropout? Yes, the man behind all these luxury trains everyone in the world admires and respects left school at a very young age of fourteen. Due to poverty, sought work and found one as a coffin maker, and then eventually a gold seller before finally shifting into the automotive business. And would you believe it he made his own steam trains and getting the design from the small boats that traversed the Erie Canal where this remarkable man was brought up.
There are several other destinations via the Orient Express. One of which is the Royal Scotsman Rail Journey where passengers will get to experience the splendor of the beautiful Scottish Highlands. Catch a glimpse of the ever-revolutionizing landscapes that behold your sight, the soaring peaks of Scotland while aboard the very exciting Royal Scotsman on an exciting tour to Scotland!
Sumptuous gourmet meals for lunch and dinner matched with champagne and wine make the Scotsman Rail Journey a truly luxurious, elegant and comfortable train ride!
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