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Oriental Desert Express The Oriental Desert Express is a privately chartered tourist train offered between Oujda and Bouarfa, Morocco. It runs along a little-used railway line, and was featured in the 2015 film Spectre. The train, made famous in the 2015 Bond movie "Spectre", trundles tourists between the town of Oujda and the former mining city of Bouarfa along a 350-kilometre-long stretch of desert. "It takes between eight and 12 hours to make the trip, sometimes even more," says Kunz, 70, who is known as Edi, blaming sandstorms for frequent delays. The 305-kilometre (190 mi) line used by the Oriental Desert Express was originally built in the 1920s and 1930s as part of the Mediterranean–Niger Railway, but is now only used twice a week by trains carrying zinc, lead, and copper from local mines. Edi Kunz, a Swiss citizen living in Morocco, learned of the line and worked with Moroccan authorities for three years to start a tourist train along it, overcoming questions from the Moroccan government over the use of a historical "prince's wagon" passenger car and from the Swiss embassy in Morocco over the train's viability. Kunz ended up committing five million euros to the project. The first trip was made in 2006, and the train runs twice annually, such as in 2013 and 2017 👇👇👇👇 contact us for any further information 👇👇👇👇 👉Follow us and tag yourself if you are interested in sharing your most perfect pictures of our beautiful country @moroccofriendlytravel Credit:® @hafiidii.omaar @walidtighazoui . . . #morocco #moroccotravel #moroccotrip #moroccolives #moroccostyle #moroccovacations #Moroccoviews #orientaldesert #desertplant #desertsky #desertsouthwest #desertphotography #desertdusk #desertlove #desertsand #film #filmphotography #filmmaking #filmmaker #filmisnotdead #films #filming # filmspectre #travel #Travelgram #traveling #Travelphotography #travelling #travelblogger #traveler

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