17h00 Depart from Victoria Falls Station, Zimbabwe, and travel southeast. Guests may freshen up in their suites before joining fellow travellers in the lounge car or observation car at the rear of the train.
19h30 Dinner is served in the dining cars en route to Kennedy Siding. Overnight on board.
ROVOS RAIL: Accommodation, all meals, all alcoholic and other beverages, 24-hour full room service and bar facilities, limited laundry service, guided excursions (where applicable), entrance fees as per itinerary and government tax.
ROVOS RAIL: Gratuities, French Champagne
05h00 A continental breakfast is served in the dining cars until departure.
06h00 Disembark for a game drive at The Hide in Hwange National Park.
12h00 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.
16h30 Tea in the lounge car or observation car at the rear of the train.
19h30 Dinner is served in the dining cars en route to the border at Beitbridge. Overnight on board.
ROVOS RAIL: Accommodation, all meals, all alcoholic and other beverages, 24-hour full room service and bar facilities, limited laundry service, guided excursions (where applicable), entrance fees as per itinerary and government tax.
ROVOS RAIL: Gratuities, French Champagne
07h00 Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 10:00. The train leaves baobab country and travels south.
13h00 Lunch is served in the dining cars. The train crosses the Tropic of Capricorn.
16h30 Tea in the lounge car or observation car at the rear of the train. Travel through Warmbaths (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.
19h30 Dinner is served. The train passes the escarpment’s edge where the Highveld drops precipitously. Overnight on board.
ROVOS RAIL: Accommodation, all meals, all alcoholic and other beverages, 24-hour full room service and bar facilities, limited laundry service, guided excursions (where applicable), entrance fees as per itinerary and government tax.
ROVOS RAIL: Gratuities, French Champagne
07h00 Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 09:00.
10h00 Arrive at journey’s end at Rovos Rail Station in Pretoria
Transfer to your Hotel.
ROVOS RAIL: Accommodation, all meals, all alcoholic and other beverages, 24-hour full room service and bar facilities, limited laundry service, guided excursions (where applicable), entrance fees as per itinerary and government tax.
Transfer to your hotel.
Overnight at the Sheraton Hotel in a Classic Room with breakfast
Guided Tour of Pretoria with lunch.
Guided Tour of Pretoria with lunch
Breakfast at the Hotel.
Guided Tour of Pretoria with lunch.
Overnight at the Sheraton Hotel in a Classic Room with breakfast.
09h00 Transfer from your hotel to the Rovos Rail Station
11h00 Depart Rovos Rail Station, Pretoria. Travel across the goldfields of the Witwatersrand. Guests may freshen up in their suites before joining fellow travellers in the lounge car or observation car at the rear of the train.
13h00 Lunch is served
16h30 Tea is served
19h30 Dinner is served in the dining cars. Overnight on board.
Transfer from Hotel to Rovos Rail Station
ROVOS RAIL: Accommodation, all meals, all alcoholic and other beverages, 24-hour full room service and bar facilities, limited laundry service, guided excursions (where applicable), entrance fees as per itinerary and government tax.
ROVOS RAIL: Gratuities, French Champagne
ROVOS RAIL: Gratuities, French Champagne
07h00 Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 10h00 en route to Kimberley.
12h30 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.
19h30 Dinner is served in the dining cars. Overnight on board. Dress: Formal
ROVOS RAIL: Accommodation, all meals, all alcoholic and other beverages, 24-hour full room service and bar facilities, limited laundry service, guided excursions (where applicable), entrance fees as per itinerary and government tax.
ROVOS RAIL: Gratuities, French Champagne
07h00 Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 10h00. The train travels 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.
13h00 Lunch is served in the dining cars. After lunch, there is a chance for guests to disembark the train at Whitehill Siding and walk the 5km into Matjiesfontein. A member of staff will accompany the group. 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.
16h30 Tea is served in the lounge and observation cars. About an hour after Matjiesfontein, the train arrives at the first of four tunnels on the pass. The first tunnel is 13.5km long so guests are to be careful when walking through the train and may wish to turn on necessary lights.
19h30 Dinner is served as the train descends ±750m down the escarpment towards Worcester. Dress: Formal
ROVOS RAIL: Accommodation, all meals, all alcoholic and other beverages, 24-hour full room service and bar facilities, limited laundry service, guided excursions (where applicable), entrance fees as per itinerary and government tax.
ROVOS RAIL: Gratuities, French Champagne
07h00 Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 09h30. The train travels through the Hex River Valley.
10h00 Arrive at journey’s end at Cape Town Station.
END OF ITINERARY
ROVOS RAIL: Accommodation, all meals, all alcoholic and other beverages, 24-hour full room service and bar facilities, limited laundry service, guided excursions (where applicable), entrance fees as per itinerary and government tax.
ROVOS RAIL: Gratuities, French Champagne
