Singapore is a city of gardens and the heart of South East Asia.
It is here that the journey begins on the Eastern and Oriental
Express, a nostalgic train journey that has all the exotic
atmosphere of colonial times. The history of Singapore began in
1819 with Thomas Stamford Raffles, a young official who worked
for the British East India Company. Raffles estimated that the
natural harbor was perfect for trading ships and thus bought the
land from the Sultan Of Johor and founded a trading settlement.
The train station exudes the ambience of British colonialism and
is an ideal setting for those who love nostalgia. The journey
begins and soon we arrive at the Malaysian border. This is the
first section of our extraordinary train journey from Singapore
to Kuala Lumpur. After eight hours, we reach Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia’s modern capital city that is relatively young and was
established in the middle of the 19th century at the junction of
the Gombak and Klang Rivers. The journey continues along a
splendid route th