The Taurus Express

Her husband’s to Aleppo gone’, wrote Shakespeare in Macbeth, and for centuries before and after the Bard’s time, traders and travellers alike flocked to this cosmopolitan city. At the crossroads of the great caravan routes from India and China to Africa and Europe, Aleppo grew rich and her prosperous past can still be glimpsed as you wander through a labyrinth of crooked lanes to view the beautiful 17th and 18th-century merchant houses.

Solely for Voyages Jules Verne travellers, on board the Taurus Express, we have secured exclusive use of a sleeping car and a restaurant car, which as well as providing meals, offers a convivial meeting point. This itinerary is full of the past – cities whose evocative names bear witness to millennia of history, atmospheric and historic hotels and timeless landscapes. This is a land rich with the legacy of man’s evolution with so much that is familiar. The Old Testament contains a wealth of references, the writings of Herodotus tell of its great Hellenic cities, Crak des Chevaliers bears witness to the exploits of the crusaders and more recently both Agatha Christie and T.E. Lawrence made their contributions at a time when the Orient and Taurus Express linked Europe and Asia.