GW Travel is the world's leading operator of exclusive, long-distance rail tours. Private train journeys operate worldwide through Russia, Mongolia, China, Tibet, Canada, India and Africa. Flagship tours use the 'Golden Eagle' Trans Siberian Express, the first privately owned, fully ensuite private train in Russia. GW Travel pioneered tours to Lhasa in 2006 travelling over the world's highest railway, and India between Bombay and Calcutta. Guidepost Rail Tours are agents for GW Travel in Australia and New Zealand.
GW Travel is the world's leading operator of exclusive, long-distance rail tours. GW's philosophy is to provide fully escorted private rail tours for the adventure traveller who is drawn to the excitement of visiting fabulous, and often remote, destinations but wants to appreciate them in style, comfort and safety. Guests are offered first-class customer service, a romantic ecploration of the world's most remarkable sites and a room with a constantly changing view. GW Travel is represented in Australia by Guidepost Rail Tours.
A rare new addition to the ranks of great railway journeys, our tours between Hong Kong and Tibet’s capital Lhasa take in an extraordinary sweep of natural wonders and culture. We will enjoy everything from Lhasa - Tibet’s holiest city but until recently virtually inaccessible in its remote Himalayan location - to China’s spectacular sights including the Three Gorges, Li River, the Terracotta Warriors, the world’s highest railway and beginning with the stunning international city of Hong Kong. Contact Guidepost Tours for reservations in Australia.
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Carefully designed to take in the very best of northern India, the ‘Darjeeling Mail’ tour covers everything from India’s most important cities to spectacular UNESCO-listed sights such as the Taj Mahal, the ‘ghost city’ of Fatehpur Sikri and of course, the unique Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. Travel on the luxury Deccan Odyssey Train through most of the tour. Contact Guidepost Rail for pricing and availability. (GWTravel)
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Rail tours of India are truly unique and offer a real flavour and insight into this fascinating country. This first-class train journey takes you from Delhi to Mumbai over 9 days. Contact Guidepost Rail Tours for prices and reservations. (GW Travel)
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Naadam is the one and only Big Event in Mongolia –a lively national festival, held every year in July. Naadam means “three manly games”. Known as the world’s second-oldest Olympics, it celebrates what defined civilisation in the Steppes eight centuries ago - archery, wrestling and horse riding. Travel from Moscow to Mongolia on the luxury Golden Eagle Trans Siberian Express. Contact Guidepost Rail Tours for pricing and availability. GWTravel
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Retracing one of the most important trading routes of ancient civilisation, this remarkable tour follows in the footsteps of such legendary figures as Alexander the Great and Marco Polo. Crossing both Russia and China as well as some of the remotest former Soviet republics – Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan – our journey will take in some of the most magnificent yet little visited sights from the ancient world. The Kara Kum desert is followed by the amazing 2,500 year-old cities of Khiva and Bukhara – considered so important by UNESCO that it supported their restoration. Journeys operate between Beijing and Moscow and in the reverse direction. A luxury train voyage aboard the Shangri La Express. Contact Guidepost Rail Tours for pricing and availability.
Undisputedly the world’s greatest railway journey, the Trans-Siberian Railway runs from Moscow over the Urals, across the magnificent Russian steppes and alongside the shores of the world’s largest freshwater lake. Travel in luxury on the Golden Eagle Private Train from Moscow to Vladivostok and reverse journeys. We have several dates to choose from so contact Guidepost Rail Tours for pricing and availability.
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Carefully designed to take in the very best of Southern India, the Madras Mail, our new tour available from 2010, covers everything from India's most important cities to spectacular World Heritage Sites and stunning coastlines. The gateways of Bombay and Madras are key ports of call in the South. They open the door to a more tropical India, slower, tranquil and even more exotic. A remarkable opportunity waits for you to discover the mysteries, diversity and traditions of Southern India in style on board our private train, the Deccan Odyssey. Contact Guidepost Rail Tours for pricing and availability. GW Travel
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Steeped in history and with an incredible legacy of art, music and literature, this is the land of Catherine the Great, of Tchaikovsky, Tolstoy and the Communist revolution. Today’s Russia wears its history with pride, as shown by a recent resurgence of interest in the pre-Soviet past. Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of Kent will join GW Travel's Crimean Express in 2010 as Guest Speaker on the Golden Eagle in 2010 for the Crimean Express Tours. Contact Guidepost Rail Tours for pricing and availability.
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Travel on the luxury Golden Eagle from Moscow to Kiev. Discover St Petersburg, Minsk in Belarus, lvov, Odessa and Sevastopol in the Ukraine, Kishinev in Moldova, as well as Balaclava, and Yalta. Long cloaked in mystery, this region is only now revealing its magnificent treasures to outside eyes. Contact Guidepost Rail Tours for more details.
Just as symbolic of mankind’s efforts is the Cape to Cairo railway – the 19th Century dream of empire-builder Cecil Rhodes. He never saw the great project finished (there’s still a 500-mile gap in the rails even today), but what has been built is an extraordinary tribute to man’s ingenuity and it is the inspiration for our very own unique route northbound from Cape Town to Cairo. It is also the perfect way to see this remarkable continent at first hand, in luxury. The epic journey over 6,000 miles from one end of the Africa to the other is now possible and to complete this immense voyage we use a combination of the Pride of Africa train, a private jet and a five star Lake Nasser cruise ship. Book early for this tour. Contact Guidepost Rail Tours in Australia and New Zealand.
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The "Pride of Africa" train has all you need to live in fine style as Africa's splendid scenery unfolds outside the windows. Our tour starts in Pretoria from where you fly to Vicotia Falls and on to Ondangwa and Etosha National Park. You then join our private train for 8 nights as we explore the spectacular sights of Namibia. Contact Guidepost Rail Tours for enquiries and reservation from Australia and New Zealand.
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For the Rail Enthusiast we have a remarkable 12 day journey aboard the China Orient Express Private Train (Shangri-La Orient Express). The China Orient Express is a comfortable Hotel-On-Wheels with Bar Car, Restaurant Car and Sleeping Cars. Travel behind and have wonderful opportunities to photograph steam over the famous Jingpeng Pass in Inner Mongolia. This tour from and to Beijing includes the spectacular climb over the Jingpeng Pass and the remarkable industrial steam locations of Nanpiao, Tiefa, Jixi, Fuxin and Huanan. Contact Guidepost Rail Tours for details and prices from Australia and New Zealand.
An incredible predominantly steam-hauled 7,000km journey during the Russian "White Nights" travelling from Moscow to Imperial St Petersburg and onto Murmansk, inside the Arctic Circle. Followers of rail travel will delight to the sight and sound of steam engines and the re-creation of a bygone era of rail travel combined with modern-day onboard facilities and comfortable accommodation on this unique voyage.
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From the wide open spaces and deep river valleys to the peaks of the snow capped mountains, much of Canada is even today a true wilderness. Eagle, deer, beaver and bear are common sights. Yet the rugged scenery of the Rockies is only part of the story: despite having one of the lowest population densities in the world, Canada is home to dynamic cities like Vancouver and Calgary and this tour visits all this and more. Check the full itinerary and contact Guidepost Rail Tours for reservations.
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The remarkable Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). For the men who built this incredible engineering feat in the 19th Century, the extraordinary scenery it had to penetrate was a huge challenge. For today’s visitors it means that riding the CPR is one of the world’s greatest experiences…and especially when you do it by private train hauled by a magnificently restored steam locomotive. Travel from Calgary to Vancouver. Contact Guidepost Rail Tours.
From its remotest to its busiest parts Canada is a remarkable country. A leisurely rail journey through the Rockies is something you’ll never forget. This luxury journey takes you from Calgary to Vancouver through Banff and the spectacular Icefields. On the return you travel the southerly route through Crows Nest. Contact Guidepost Rail Tours for more details and pricing.
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