Post by Owen on May 31, 2024 8:31:07 GMT
1 ~~~ Journeying through the Malaysian Rainforest Aboard the Legendary Eastern & Oriental Express
After four years, Belmond's luxury sleeper train has returned to Southeast Asia with completely restyled interiors and brand new routes.
I pried open the blinds, letting dawn’s filigreed light into the cabin.
Outside my window, wild forest zoomed past.
All night the train had barreled up the “jungle rails,” a historic set of tracks that spans the length of peninsular Malaysia, from its southernmost tip to its border with Thailand in the northeast.
Those tracks would lead us to Taman Negara, one of the world’s oldest rainforests and the last refuge of the Malayan tiger.
I was one of 56 passengers, from as far as Texas, Romania, and New Zealand, who’d assembled the previous afternoon at Singapore’s Woodlands station to experience the return of the Eastern & Oriental Express, A Belmond Train, Southeast Asia, four years after being shut down by the pandemic.
Waving the sticky heat around with our tickets, we awaited our boarding call, combing the crowd for the likelihood of new friendships.
www.cntraveler.com/story/journeying-through-malaysian-rainforest-on-the-eastern-and-oriental-express?
25 May 2024
After four years, Belmond's luxury sleeper train has returned to Southeast Asia with completely restyled interiors and brand new routes.
I pried open the blinds, letting dawn’s filigreed light into the cabin.
Outside my window, wild forest zoomed past.
All night the train had barreled up the “jungle rails,” a historic set of tracks that spans the length of peninsular Malaysia, from its southernmost tip to its border with Thailand in the northeast.
Those tracks would lead us to Taman Negara, one of the world’s oldest rainforests and the last refuge of the Malayan tiger.
I was one of 56 passengers, from as far as Texas, Romania, and New Zealand, who’d assembled the previous afternoon at Singapore’s Woodlands station to experience the return of the Eastern & Oriental Express, A Belmond Train, Southeast Asia, four years after being shut down by the pandemic.
Waving the sticky heat around with our tickets, we awaited our boarding call, combing the crowd for the likelihood of new friendships.
www.cntraveler.com/story/journeying-through-malaysian-rainforest-on-the-eastern-and-oriental-express?
25 May 2024