Travel in city Silverton

Oct 17, 2024 • 9 min read

Summer is an ideal time to take a rail trip, with pleasant weather and blooming flora enhancing the already prime scenery gliding by passengers’ windows. And this year, there are plenty of new and exciting train routes launching around the world, just in time for a summer vacation. Whether you’re interested in taking a scenic jaunt through the English countryside, cozying up on a night bullet train hurdling between Asia’s busiest capitals, or meandering along the length of Italy to its southern coast, there’s a new route that will suit any type of travel style.

The shoot for 2015 instant-classic Mad Max: Fury Road was famously arduous, in large part due to a remote Namibian desert shooting location with extreme elemental trials that only served to further the film’s high-wire madness. For this year’s prequel, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, things were a touch easier as production returned to the Australian setting of the original Mad Max trilogy. The Outback, while not quite the desolate landscape of the Namib (we are talking a difference of a few blades of grass), is still red hot for apocalypse action.

“It looks like Canada,” said Nate Disser, our guide, indicating the lofty, snow-cloaked peaks around us. Later that day, when our group of 10 had skied to another high-alpine basin where craggy rock monoliths jutted up from ridgelines, Mr. Disser noted a resemblance to the Italian Dolomites. Yet we were in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado, a spectacular place in its own right.

Two travel tech startups announced fundraises over the past week totaling more than $203 million.