DAY 1: MATJIESFONTEIN
11:00 - Depart from Cape Town Station. Guests may freshen up in their suites before joining fellow travellers in the lounge car and observation car.
13:00 - Lunch is served in the dining cars. The train reaches Worcester in the Hex River Valley before climbing ±750m up the face of the escarpment. The train arrives at the first of four tunnels on the pass. The last tunnel is 13.5km long so guests are to be careful when walking through the train and may wish to turn on necessary lights.
16:30 - Tea is served in the lounge and observation cars.
Disembark at Matjiesfontein for an opportunity to stroll through the historic village. Of special interest is the museum on the platform and a collection of historic cars and railway carriages to the right of the Lord Milner Hotel.
19:30 - Dinner is served in the dining cars. Overnight on board. Dress: Formal
DAY 2: KIMBERLEY
07:00 - Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 10:00. Travel through the Karoo, a vast semi-desert region that was once an enormous inland sea. Over millions of years, volcanic matter was ground down and deposited as silt upon the seabed to form what geologists call the Karoo system.
12:30 - Lunch is served in the dining cars.
Enjoy a tour of Kimberley’s Diamond Mine Museum and the Big Hole. Capital of the Northern Cape, Kimberley is well known for the discovery of diamonds that led to its establishment in 1871.
16:30 - Tea is served in the lounge and observation cars.
19:30 - Dinner is served in the dining cars en route to Klerksdorp. Overnight on board. Dress: Formal
DAY 3: PRETORIA
07:00 - Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 10:00. Travel northeast through the goldfields of the Witwatersrand.
13:00 - Lunch is served in the dining cars.
17:00 - The train arrives at journey’s end at Rovos Rail Station, Pretoria.
