Upcoming Trips
Discover More About Our Custom Rail Itineraries Below
Love train travel? We offer well-crafted rail themed trips with a focus on culture, food, and adventures. With Magnificent Rail, you’ll see the world and make new friends while watching the countryside roll by.
Inspired by the railway documentaries of British journalist, Michael Portillo, our trips follow in his footsteps as we travel India, Spain to Morocco, The Baltics, Budapest to Istanbul and Japan by train, visiting places featured in the original Bradshaw Guides – and beyond.
Small-Group Travel
Unique Custom Itineraries
Decades of Travel Industry Experience
Who is Behind Magnificent Rail?
Learn More About The Team
Magnificent Rail is the passion project of some of Australia’s most renowned travel experts. Our team has drawn upon their decades of travel industry experience and deep networks of connections to put together these wonderful new trips. Learn more about the team that makes up Magnificent Rail on our About Us page.
Follow Our Adventures On Instagram
A mixed bag from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
It's been a little while since we posted from a trip! We currently have 2 Rail Adventures on the go!
Pic 1: 🇱🇰 our Sri Lanka group ♥️
Pic 2: 🇭🇺 our Budapest to Istanbul group 💚
We know you've been asking.😄
More to come.... 🥳
Can we tempt you for a swim? Balkans Rail Explorer's Croatian edition may just do so 🏝
Ana here from the team! Just wanted to share this exquisite, mouthwatering clip of potato 'pita' in the making! 🤤😋
Apparently, the secret is in getting the pastry super, paper-thin - as you can see, it's practically see-through!
MagRailers on our Balkans trip are getting some awesome insider tips on how to prepare it 🤗
I just want to leave you with some final words on the name 😊
In other parts of the Balkans, this specialty is referred to as 'burek', for example in Croatia where I'm from we refer to all of the filled pastries as burek - whether it's meat, cheese, spinach or potato.
BUT!☝️ In Bosnia-Herzegovina, only the meat-filled pastry is burek - the other fillings are always 'pita'. So while in Rome (ie Sarajevo) - this is pita.
Also - and this is a personal 'peeve' 😅... technically, this is not 'pie', so I'm not sure why locals translate it that way. You can see that it's a flaky pastry after it's baked.
So I prefer to call this either potato pastry (for English) or burek (because I'm Croatian) - but if I was visiting BiH I would definitely be using the local 'pita' 😄
Just an awesome bunch of MagRailers waiting for a train in Užice, Serbia - while exploring the Balkans!
Some long-awaited rain today as our third Balkans Rail trip gets underway... no complaints to be had! Just refreshment from this year's unusually warm heat spell.