700 AM // Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 10:00.
800 AM // 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.
1000 AM // 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.
100 PM // Lunch is served in the dining cars .
430 PM // Tea is served in the lounge and observation cars.
730 PM // Dinner is served in the dining cars.
Overnight on board.

600 AM // Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 08:30.
830 AM // Enjoy a tour of Kimberley’s Diamond Mine Museumand the Big Hole. Capital of the Northern Cape, Kimberley is well known for the discovery of diamonds that led to its establishment in 1871.
1200 PM // Lunch is served as the train travels northeast towards Klerksdorp and the broad grassland plains of the Highveld.
430 PM // Tea is served in the lounge and observation cars.
730 PM // Dinner is served in the dining cars.
Overnight on board.

700 AM // Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 09:30.
1000 AM // The train arrives at journey’s end at Rovos Rail Station, Pretoria.