Famed Orient Express Arrives in Bulgaria's Varna

The Orient Express train, famously described in Agatha Christie's novel "Murder on the Orient Express," arrived in Bulgaria's Black Sea city of Varna Wednesday.

The legendary train arrived in the Balkan country with some 90 passengers from the USA and all over Europe onboard.

As is the Bulgarian tradition, they were welcomed on the platform with ritual bread and salt.

After staying for several hours in Varna, the Orient Express will be off to Istanbul.

The luxury Orient Express, also known as "the train that never hurries" was initially owned by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, and now by Venice Simplon-Orient-Express.

It track links Paris and Istanbul and also serves as a symbolic link between the two continents of Europe and Asia.

Orient Express took its first trip from Paris on October 4, 1883. It was then named Express d'Orien, until 1891 when it was given the now famous Orient Express. At the time it traveled twice a week from Paris trough Strasbourg, Munich, Vienna, and Budapest to Gurgevo where on a ferry it reached Ruse.