Africa Train The Travel Show

Victoria Gill, BBC News.

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This week on The Travel Show...

Seeing Africa by train.

This week on The Travel Show...

Seeing Africa by train.

We witnessed

seven lions that were chasing a

zebra. It was like a movie! And this

was real.

The history of selfies.

Selfies have a very interesting

history that goes back 40,000 years.

And rocking the mike underwater in

Denmark.

Making music!

We're starting this week in Africa

on a train line that passes through

some of the continent's wildest

landscape. The Freedom Railway cut

through more than 8000 kilometres of

mountains, jungle and Savannah. As

it winds its way from Tansey to

Zambia's central province. But more

than 40 years after it opened, it is

now beginning to show its age and is

overdue and major upgrade. We bought

a ticket and went to find out what

makes the journey so unique.

I'm

scared of using the bus because

buses aren't safe. The first time on

the train I was like...

And if you're tempted by a rail

journey through Africa, here's our

pick up some of the highlights. The

continent's first ever high-speed

train line is due to open this

summer in Morocco. It will more than

half the time it takes to travel

from the -- the port of Tangiers

where you can pick up slower

connections. Another key upgrade

recently has been the stretch from

Mombasa to Nairobi, in Kenya. That

route used to be known as the

lunatic express because its

construction in the late 19th

century was so dangerous. Thousands

of labourers died working on it.

Many from malaria. Some from being

attacked by lions. The 12 hour

journey has now been reduced to four

and a half, but at those speeds you

might find that any visible the game

makes it slightly trickier to spot.

One of the most luxury is and most

expensive rides Africa has to offer

is South Africa's Blue Train. It

takes to be seven hours to travel

the nearly 1000 miles from Pretoria

to Cape Town and will set you back

around £900, or about $1200 US.

However, you are paying not just for

dramatic views of the landscapes but

also for high-end 5-star service

onboard. And in Egypt, the line from

Cairo tracks the course of the Nile

River and offers excellent views of

plantations and villages on the way.

If you try and book at the ticket

office they'll put you on the

sleeper services and you will miss

all the views, however there is

nothing to stop you booking online

or just turning up and getting your

ticket on the train. Do check the

latest travel advice before you go.

Still to come on The Travel Show, we

take our best pal along to be Museum

of Selfies. And why I'm getting a

good dunking in the name of music.

It's lovely and warm!

When you're

singing into the water you have to

have watered down your throat and if

you open up you get the water in

your lungs.

So, do stay with us. The

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wherever you're heading.

OK, it is time for Trend in Travel,

your monthly mash-up of the best

travel stories, pics and leapt.

Apparently over 1 million selfies

are posted to social media every

day. So it was probably inevitable

that someone would open up a Museum

of Selfies. It opened in LA for a

month starting in April.

It is more

than just a gallery of art, it is an

installation that allows people to

create selfies of there own. Selfies

have an interesting history that

goes back 40,000 years. The human

form is a very old thing that we've

depicted since we were able to start

drawing on cave walls. It's changed

because technology and techniques

have become more advanced.

This

year, the Africa celebrates 100

years since the birth of Nelson

Mandela. With a packed calendar of

concerts, celebrations and a new

app. Madiba's journey guides

visitors around many other sites

that shaped the great man's life,

including Robben Island, when he was

imprisoned for 18 long gruelling

years. The listings are decked out

with images, histories and even

audio guides. Available for both iOS

and Android. Now we need to travel

photographer with a difference.

Jackie Kenny uses Google Street View

to explore the world, posting her

screen grabs. She suffers from a

fear of open spaces, leaving her

largely confined to her house, but

her work is spreading across the

globe, with an exhibition in New

York and nearly 100,000 Instagram

followers. For a limited time she is

donating a portion of the profits to

the brain and behaviour research

foundation. We caught up with blind

backpacker Tony, fresh from his trip

to Israel and Palestine for a

Facebook live interview

to Israel and Palestine for a

Facebook live interview. He has

visited over 120 countries, despite

losing his right as a child.

What has been the most unforgettable

place that you have visited? The

most amazing place.

India is the

most amazing country, I have been

twice and the first time I spent

months on the bus, travelling around

and bungee jumping. I love the

people and the nature, I can smell

it all and since it all. -- sense.

Thank you to everyone who sent us

your pictures from your travel,

using our hash tag. Here is what

caught my eye. Mario took this

stunning sunset shot. While Roger

captured and other sunset view.

Don't forget to share your travel

pictures with us on our Twitter

feed. OK, here are the travel videos

we have been viewing this month. 70

years ago this month, shrill anchor

declared independence from Great

Britain. So we have selected a

couple of films that show the

country at its best that you can

also check out online.

And if you see anything you think we

should go about, please do get in

touch. You can find us on Twitter at

BBC travel show. And finally this

week, I travel to aALBORG in

Denmark. -- Aalborg. This is a

country Company surrounded by water,

no matter where you are you are

never more than 50 kilometres from

the coast. So it should come as a

surprise that that it was here that

a local artist was inspired to

combine music and water in a way

that you have never heard it for. --

heard before. This is the group

Between Music, their latest show is

a four part series called Aqua

sonic, which explores who we are as

human beings and it begins with our

time in the wound.

-- womb. We are

so often divided by you and me, them

and us, religion and different

cultures, but this is something we

all know about. We have our first

nine months covered by this water

filter so I think somehow the

audience, I think they are on at

least an unconscious level will have

a flashback to hearing those sounds.

So as performers, how does it feel

when you are underwater performing

to an audience?

It gets really,

somehow a sense of loneliness to it.

There is not only a visual

loneliness to see the human in the

tanks, but also the sound has a

loneliness to it, I think that is

quite a nice idea.

So, here goes.

One deep roof and, well, actually

this is quite nice.

You are doing

good!

It is lovely and warm.

Yeah,

this is great. So if you take this

microphone that is hanging and then

you hit this bell plate, you see the

one? Yes. Then you take the

microphone and put it in the water.

Do you hear that effect? Then you

can sort of play with it. Playing

music in water has two sides. On one

side it is terrifying because also

when you are singing into the water

you have to have watered down your

throat and if you open up you get

the water in your lungs. So that is

quite terrifying.

So how on earth do

you get musical insurance to play

underwater?

Well it took us ten, 11

years to make this and how come it

took so long? OK, it is something

that you need to really research and

when you see what other people have

done and are trained, most

instruments didn't sound really

good, but we saw somehow a potential

in this. But we also realised we had

to build instruments to work in the

water, so we found collaborators

around the world to help us build

issuance for this project.

--

instruments. From his studio in Bath

in England, Matt Nolan works with

artist all around the world to

create custom-made instrument. --

instruments. --

artist.

-- artists.

I guess somehow I become the guy

people go to when they need

something unusual. I was approached

by, I think it was one of the

production guys will Aqua sonic,

they needed some bespoke underwater

percussion. I tried a lot of things

in a small tank of water here and

was astonished by how many things

literally just go clunk and do

anything else. All of the high

frequencies that shimmer like a

symbol all just disappear. With

various train, we narrowed down on

those instruments that were heavy

and massive and could sustain and

contain a certain amount of sonic

energy and radio out, the water

doesn't kill it too quickly. It is

always good to find something that

is not working and figure out how to

make it work.

Back in Denmark I am

beginning to think I am a natural.

Maybe move this to the window and if

you hit it with a hammer you can

close the sound with your hand.

Another thing, if you take, there is

a small stick on the top of the,

yeah, exactly. And you can use that

for the ring over there, with the

holes in it.

That's so cool axe Mac you're making

music!

-- that's so cool axe Mac --

cool!

. It is so cool, you have

these hammers, it resonates and you

can feel it in your body. It is a

totally different experience than

hanging a bell with a hammer.

And

when you have been out of order for

a couple of weeks and months and

when we go and we have to play

somewhere and get in the tank, it

feels like getting home again. Try

to go down and hit may be number one

and number three together. -- may

be.

-- maybe.

Underwater music, trickier than it

appears and definitely one not to

try at home. Unfortunately that's

all we got time for on this weeks

show. Coming up next week: With the

Winter Olympics in full swing in

South Korea, Carmen heads to Seoul

for a taste of its strict culture.

It is pretty cold out here right

now, it feels well below zero, but

look at this place, it's so

bustling! You would think people

would be at home with the central

heating on full blast, but no, this

place is really happening.

And we

are off to one of the toughest,

wildest environments the UK has to

offer. Jo joins a tour which teach

-- which teach you how to survive

the night outdoors in Scotland's

mountains.

I have been digging for a

couple of hours now and the camera

is finally starting to completely

freeze over and I am also freezing

over. Cheers everyone!

So do join us

then, if you can. In the meantime

don't forget you can catch up with

us while we are out on the road in

real-time. Details are on the screen

now. From now, from the team and the

rest of the team in Denmark, it is

goodbye.