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Article: south africa : Climb aboard South Africas rainbow train.
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- February 23, 2009
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Byline: rakshali03
South Africa cocooned in luxury. But there is an alternative: the brightly painted Trans-Karoo plies the same route for a fraction of the price, and you get to meet the locals too We didn't get to the Karoo until shortly before nightfall. The train had been late out of Johannesburg that morning, taking forever to haul itself clear of the sprawl of squatter camps, while the suspiciously symmetrical hills of former mineworkings stalked us across the horizon.
At one point, skirting the township of Soweto, we rumbled through a massive graveyard at a respectful walking pace. It stretched as far as the eye could see and was clearly expanding ...