A newlywed couple who spent their honeymoon riding an African iron ore train in northwest Africa

Newlyweds.

Newlyweds. (photo by Felipe Salgado via Unsplash)

If you’re getting married, you may have dreamed of taking a trip to popular destinations in the warm and tropical Caribbean such as St. Barts or Turks & Caicos, or a romantic place like Paris or Tuscany, Italy.

But a growingly popular idea is choosing to spend memorable moments together on a freight train carrying wagons of dirt iron ore across the scorching hot deserts of Mauritania in northwest Africa. According to CNN Travel, that was the case for Croatian newlyweds Kristijan and Andrea Llicic.

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