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Rovos Rail – Cape Town – Pretoria – Victoria Falls
Experience Africa aboard Rovos Rail. Travel from Cape Town to Pretoria and Victoria Falls in luxurious style, surrounded by breathtaking scenery.
Day by day
- Day 1overnight: Victoria Falls
Arrival in Victoria Falls
Own flight arrangements to Johannesburg and connecting flight to Victoria Falls. A taxi transfer takes you to the highly rated Victoria Falls Hotel (5 star) for two nights; afternoon to relax or start exploring.
- Day 2overnight: Victoria Falls
A full day to explore Victoria Falls
Known as ‘Mosi-oa-Tunya’, ‘The Smoke that Thunders’, Victoria Falls is nearly two kilometres wide, with over 500 million cubic metres of water per minute plunging into a gorge more than one hundred metres below; columns of spray can be seen kilometres away.
- Day 3railovernight: On board Pride of Africa
Welcome aboard Rovos Rail’s Pride of Africa at Victoria Falls
Free morning, check-in at 16:00 at The Victoria Falls Hotel, then across to Victoria Falls station to be greeted by Rovos Rail staff and shown to your private suite. Tea on board as the train begins the ascent towards Malindi; dinner in the dining cars.
- Day 4overnight: On board Pride of Africa
Game Drive at The Hide in Hwange National Park
Early breakfast then a game drive in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe’s largest game reserve. Lunch on board along the 114km straight stretch between Dete and Gwaai, tea through Baobab country, dinner en route towards the border at Beitbridge.
- Day 5railovernight: On board Pride of Africa
Matobo National Park
Breakfast on board before a transfer (±45 min) to Matobo National Park to see bushmen caves, rock art and the grave of Cecil John Rhodes. Lunch through baobab country, tea as the train descends to Gwanda, dinner en route to Beitbridge for Zimbabwean border formalities.
- Day 6railovernight: On board Pride of Africa
At Leisure on board – Journey across the Limpopo River and Tropic of Capricorn
A day at leisure on board as the train crosses the Limpopo River and the Tropic of Capricorn into the rugged South African landscape, with meals served in the elegant dining car.
- Day 7railovernight: Pretoria
Pretoria
Breakfast on board through the goldfields of the Witwatersrand via Krugersdorp, Germiston and Johannesburg, arriving at the colonial-style Rovos Rail Station in Pretoria. Transfer to your overnight hotel; explore the Union Buildings, Voortrekker Monument, Mahlamba Ndlopfu, or the National Zoological and Botanical Gardens.
- Day 8overnight: On board Pride of Africa
Re-join the Pride of Africa – Enroute to Klerksdorp
Luxury coach transfer back to the station and welcome back on board. Lunch across the grassland plains of the Highveld, tea in the lounge and observation cars, dinner en route to Klerksdorp.
- Day 9overnight: On board Pride of Africa
Kimberley - Coach Tour of Kimberley, Diamond Mine Museum and the Big Hole
Breakfast in the dining car, then a guided coach tour of Kimberley, a city shaped by the diamond rush of the 1870s, visiting the Diamond Mine Museum and the monumental ‘Big Hole’, a man-made excavation up to 214 metres deep. Dinner back on board.
- Day 10railovernight: On board Pride of Africa
Matjiesfontein and the Karoo
Through the Karoo, a vast semi-desert that was once an enormous inland sea. Lunch as the train pulls into Matjiesfontein, with time to discover this charming village, its station museum and historic cars and railway carriages. Numerous tunnels follow, the first 13.5km long, before dinner as the train descends 750m towards Worcester.
- Day 11overnight: Cape Town
Worcester through the Winelands to Cape Town
Breakfast among grape-producing farms accounting for 25% of South Africa’s national wine production, through the Hex River Valley to Cape Town, where you are transferred to The Table Bay Hotel (5 star). Rest of the day at leisure.
- Day 12overnight: Cape Town
At leisure in Cape Town
The oldest city in South Africa, set between Table Mountain and Table Bay with views to Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was famously imprisoned. Beaches, wildlife, the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens and many museums.
- Day 13
Return home
Leisurely breakfast, then your transfer takes you to the airport for your flight(s) home.
Included
- 2 nights’ accommodation with breakfast in the Taj Hotel (5 star) or similar in Cape Town
- 7 nights on board Rovos Rail’s ‘Pride of Africa’ in a Pullman Suite with all meals from Victoria Falls to Cape Town
- All meals, excursions and beverages, incl. alcohol, on the Rovos Rail journeys
- 1 night’s accommodation with breakfast in a 4 star hotel in Pretoria
- 2 nights’ accommodation with breakfast in the Victoria Falls Hotel or similar in Victoria Falls
- Transfers between the airports, stations and your hotels in Cape Town, Pretoria and Victoria Falls
- Excursions throughout (as mentioned in the itinerary)
Not included
- Flights (own flight arrangements to Johannesburg and connecting flight to Victoria Falls)
