5:00PM 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.
7:30PM 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.:
5:00AM A continental breakfast is served in the dining cars until departure.
6:00AM Enjoy a game drive at The Hide in Hwange National Park.
12:00PM 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.
4:30PM Tea is served in the lounge and observation cars.
7:30PM Dinner is served in the dining cars en route Mbalabala for overnight. Dress: Formal
7:00AM Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 10:00.
8:30AM The train departs for Gwanda. The train stops at Gwanda where guests have an opportunity to stroll through the village.
10:30AM Travel south through baobab country to Beitbridge for Zimbabwean border formalities.
1:00PM Lunch is served in the dining cars.
4:30PM Tea is served in the lounge and observation cars. The train crosses the Limpopo River to Musina for South African border formalities. In Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, the ‘Elephant’s Child’ departs his family for the “great greygreen, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to find out what the Crocodile has for dinner.”
7:30PM Dinner is served en route to Louis Trichardt for overnight. Dress: Formal
7:00AM Breakfast is served in the dining cars until departure. The train crosses the Tropic of Capricorn.
9:00AM Visit Polokwane Nature Reserve.
1:00PM Lunch is served in the dining cars.
4:30PM 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.
7:30PM 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.
7:00AM Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 09:30.
10:00AM Arrive at journey’s end at Rovos Rail Station, Pretoria
