Trains and buses are not merely means of transport. Our planet offers wide panoramas and visual pleasures to offer the traveller, which make the journey as much an experience as the destination. Taxis are often quite expensive, with notable exceptions being the developed Middle East countries and Thailand.
Eurostar and Overnight
For help on travelling within and from major tourist capitals: see Stations
Reservations
If you are using high-speed, hotel trains, or Swiss special trains such as the Bernina Express, TGV, Thalys or Frecciarossa among others, make sure that you make all the reservations on your first day in the country to which the reservation pertains at a major station. The seats available to Eurailpass holders are very limited in France, and the fare-supplement reservations are compulsory on each train. In some cases when booking with less than more than 3 months for travel, on TGV and Thalys, it is better to buy individual tickets online.
At Tourama, we offer our customers
reservation services on Japanese Shinkansen,
Britrail,
Eurail /
Eurostar,
Australian Rail and
Amtrak. We also can offer
value-for-money city passes e.g. the London Pass and the
Stockholm Card. During
a first or sightseeing dominated visit, these
European city
discount cards are strongly
recommended, for their convenience and cost-effectiveness. Many
other destinations
have now been added to these easy travel solutions.
If you want to explore
Australia,
some of the great train rides are to be found in the
Outback.
Train highlights
Most of the memorable rail journeys in the world
are in Europe. Of these, the best "ambrosia for the eyes"
is without a
doubt the
Bergen Railway (which ascends to Norway's highest
railway station,
Finse, at 1222m) and the
Flamsbana
in Western
Norway. You can incorporate this in the panoramic
Norway
in a Nutshell tour, from Oslo or Bergen (return),
changing at Myrdal. The
beautiful, steep, green-white-and-blue (and in summer, technicolour) alpine vistas of Switzerland, particularly the
Bernina Express, the
Glacier
Express and the Jungfraubahn
to Jungfraujoch: Top of EuropeTM,
and the other services through the Bernese Oberland on a single pass,
a close second.
For more, see
Scenic Europe |
World's Top 25 Train Journeys
For a once in the lifetime travel experience, none can match the luxurious splendour of the legendary Orient Express, made famous by the Agatha Christie novel and movie.
The fastest commercial train system in the world uses a German-developed levitation technology called Maglev. Our guests can try this blistering 30km train connection to Lonyang Lu station in Shanghai, from Pu Dong airport, with a top commercial speed of 431km/h. This easily outpaces the Shinkansen (bullet trains) of Japan and even France's Train à Grande Vitesse (TGV), both of which operate at about 300km/h commercially.
Eurail in Sri Lanka. Eurail is not a type of train - it is in fact a Pass to be used on the national rail companies of member countries, e.g. Deutsche Bahn in Germany, RENFE in Spain. The supplier for Sri Lanka is Rail Europe, a joint venture between SNCF France and SBB Switzerland. We are pleased to offer you their products at the same rate, along with first-hand advice and cost-saving tips.
Note:
Mid-April, May and September are the best times
to travel, while July to mid-September is the peak - at which time
you will find vast crowds and long queues at attractions. Recent
summers have been extremely hot. Winters alternate from mild
(2011,2013) to extremely cold (2010, 2018).
Note: Eurail passes are subject to a segment fee of EUR5 per pass.
For more information please contact us.
You can shop around for Online Tickets from a number of different sites, beginning with the go-to Trainline.eu , SplitTicketing for UK, and Loco2. Note that your Sri Lanka credit card may not work on some websites.
For travellers looking for an long distance
overland trip on transport other than trains, the Coach or Regional
Express Bus is both viable and cheaper. The drawback to this is,
the frequency is less, may take longer (due to speed) with a
departure from a place which is difficult to find, and fill
up fast.
Here are the best providers, with web links.
Eurolines in Continental Europe
FlixBus
Greyhound in the
USA/Canada/Australia
National
Express /
Citylink
in the UK
GoToBus (Metasearch)
Comparabus
Omio (formerly
GoEuro)
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