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title: Rovos Rail - African Trilogy
date: 2024-06-22T01:00:14Z
modified: 2026-05-23T08:03:07Z
permalink: "https://www.thesafaripartners.com/tour/rovos-rail-african-trilogy/"
type: tour
status: publish
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wpid: 298295
travel-style:
  - Group Travel
  - Rail Journeys
  - Wildlife Safaris
who:
  - Romance Seekers
  - Solo Traveller
when:
  - April
  - August
  - December
  - February
  - January
  - July
  - June
  - March
  - May
  - November
  - October
  - September
budget:
  - Going all out
tour-type:
  - Mobile-train
  - Scheduled Tour
featured_image: /wp-content/uploads/2024/06/istock-882180160.jpg
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Pretoria to Walvis Bay. Fifteen nights, sixteen days, across South Africa and Namibia by way of the Kingdom of eSwatini. This is the slow way to cross a continent. The African Trilogy runs west from the Highveld to the Atlantic, trading the green hills of the east for the deserts of the west, with the train as a moving hotel between stops. You sleep in a wood-panelled suite, eat well, and step off for game drives, a canyon, a cultural village, a diamond town, and the dunes of the Namib. Rovos carries no more than seventy-two guests, so the train never feels crowded. Two nights are spent off the train, at a desert lodge near Sossusvlei and at a lodge on the edge of Etosha. The rest of the time the country simply rolls past the window.