Amazing Train Journeys

- Season 7

(2017)

Philippe begins his journey in Padang (Sumatra): he goes to the fruit market and the people offers him the durian fruit with a strong smell.In the train he meet Minankabau women and is invited at the buffalo party in a village with rice fields: the villagers organize a run of buffalo through a muddy rice field.Then Philippe goes to Jakarta where he takes a suburban train.He is invited to a marriage near the railway track.Then travel to Jogyakarta: visit of the Buddhist temple in Borobudur.There young people practice an Indonesian martial art called pencak.Finally ...

Beginning of the journey in Helsinki.Philippe meets a fisherman on a frozen inlet: the man drills holes in the layer of ice and caught a small pike in the morning, but he gave it back to the sea.Helsinki. main station: departure for Rovaniemi (12 and half hours): Philippe asks the Finnish why they go to Lapland in winter, a so cold place: to practice winter sports and to enjoy the great spaces the nature and the silence: also some enjoy to take a bath in very cold water.In a great white space Philippe meets Yuka, a Laplander reindeer breeder who speaks with him about ...

Beginning of the journey at the railway station of Los Romeros: the rail-car is the unique transport for the people of this region who need to sell their products to the town of Constitución; Philippe eats a tortilla with a woman who goes to the market.An old man speaks about this train and the virtue of the smile in the life.Then Philippe goes to the Mapuche territory: he meets there the machi, a female shaman who this day will receive a woman suffering strong pains in her back: some members of the community have come and together they have a meal and later there is ...

Philippe begins his travel in the countryside near St. Petersburg: he sees a kiosk and speak with the woman who is the gate-keeper: she talks about the importance of the security at the railway crossings.Then Philippe takes the train from Pavlovsk to St.Petersburg: The Russian railway net has 47.000 kilometers of lines (second railway net in the world) : the passengers explain him that travel by train is practical and cheap.Philippe arrives at Saint-Petersburg: the rail station is huge and art modern (the first railway line was installed between St.Petersburg and the ...

Beginning of the journey at the Pilatus rack train: beautiful landscapes, pastures, ibexeses, the greatest slope in the world. Then Philippe goes to the Gruyère region; a very green area.There Philippe meets a cowboy (armailli) with his cow herd (100 cows).Later some bearded men appear: there is a meeting of armaillis, they invite Philippe to eat fondue and sing "Le ranz des vaches", a traditional sing of the Armaillis.It's a brotherhood of men who love their earth and their traditions.Now Philippe is in Fribourg and takes the train to Berne: a lady explains that the ...

Philippe Gougler begins his travel in Genova: a visit to the old town with very narrow streets: the neighborhood is full of life: there a lot of small shop and Philippe visits a shop very people can buy fresh and organic chicken, only chicken,four generations have managed this shop. Then Philippe Philippe takes a a train towards La Spezia and stops at one of the typical village of the Cinque Terre; Monterosso, where a Franciscan monk has invited him to visit the monastery: a place of peace except the trains which are passing through the village.Then a train to cross ...

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