Riding the Rails - Train Travel
AFAR Ambassadors are in-the-know bloggers who have a passion for experiential travel.
Sitting on top of the world...in the Cinque Terre
As I hiked the trail from Vernazza to Corniglia, I came up to a point where I had this fabulous view of Vernazza where I had spent the previous night. The Cinque Terre (5 lands) was a place I had wanted to visit for a few years. Being here,...
Railway Hotels: Riffelalp Resort, Zermatt, Switzerland
A 20-minute cogwheel-rail journey followed by a rideon Europe’s highest tram (or, in winter, a snowy hike) brings you to a lodge at an elevation of 7,000 feet. Most of the alpine-style rooms have terraces that face the Matterhorn.
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chasing the train out of the Alps
Going for a drive on a Sunday afternoon in the Romansch-speaking high country in Graubunden, Switzerland...
Road and railroad crisscross each other frequently in the Alps, often on century-old stone bridges. I was staying with a friend-of-a-friend...
Model Trains For Kids Young And Old
Ninety minutes south of Columbus and just to the north of Cincinnati, OH, EnterTRAINment Junction houses the world's largest train display - over 25,000 sq. ft. of model trains in an 80,000 sq. ft. facility. The indoor train display was built with...
Are We There Yet?: Transandine Railway
While driving along the international route from Mendoza, Argentina to Santiago, Chile you can see parts of the decommissioned railroad from the old Transandine Railway. Railroad service was suspended in 1978 due to tensions between Argentina...
Railway Station
Brugge has one of the busiest railway stations in Belgium.......
Ascending Valparaiso’s Ascensores
by Steven Bodzin
Valparaiso has the world’s biggest concentration of hillside railways, known locally as ascensores, or elevators. Victorian developers built 30 of them to shuttle residents and their goods up and down the city’s steep coastal...
Not a Bad Backyard View
There are no roads to the small village of Bulnes, located in the Asturias region of northern Spain. To reach the village, locals and wandering visitors must either ride the funicular (cable railway running through the mountain) or hike about an...
Finse, Norway
Finse, an easy-to-miss railway stop high in the mountains on the popular Bergen-to-Oslo train route, draws hardy urbanites year-round. The town offers access to some of the most remote and beautiful alpine hiking territory in southern Norway...
