17:00 - Depart from Victoria Falls Station, Zimbabwe. Guests may freshen up in their suites before joining fellow travellers in the lounge car or observation car at the rear of the train.
19:30 - Dinner is served in the dining cars en route to Malindi for overnight. Dress: Formal
Please ensure the Train Manager or Administration Deputy is in possession of your passport.
05:00 - A continental breakfast is served in the dining cars until departure.
06:00 - Enjoy a game drive at The Hide in Hwange National Park.
12:00 - Lunch is served in the dining cars. The train travels between Dete and Gwaai along one of the world’s longest stretches of straight railway line – 114 kilometres – and passes Bulawayo: second city of Zimbabwe, capital of Matabeleland and industrial capital of the country.
16:30 - Tea is served in the lounge and observation cars. The train travels through baobab country.
19:30 - Dinner is served in the dining cars en route to the border at Beitbridge. Dress: Formal
07:00 - Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 10:00. The train crosses the Limpopo River to Musina. In Rudyard Kipling’s. Just So Stories, the ‘Elephant’s Child’ departs his family for the “great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to find out what the Crocodile has for dinner.”
13:00 - Lunch is served in the dining cars. The train crosses the Tropic of Capricorn.
16:30 - Tea is served in the lounge and observation cars. Travel through Warmbaths (Bela-Bela) – so named for its mineral waters – and Nylstroom, christened by the Voortrekkers as the source of the Nile River as the town’s river happened to be north flowing. Pass the edge of the escarpment where the Highveld drops precipitously.
19:30 - Dinner is served in the dining cars en route to Pyramid for overnight. Dress: Formal
Please ensure that your luggage is ready for collection at 09:45 and that you have your passport.
07:00 - Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 09:30.
10:00 - Arrive at journey’s end at Rovos Rail Station, Pretoria.
