630 AM // Breakfast is served in the dining cars until departure. Transfer to Spionkop Lodge for the morning. A choice of two excursions is available: hear the historic tale of the Battle of Spionkop or enjoy a game drive in the 11 000-acre reserve.
100 PM // Lunch is served in the dining cars. The Drakensberg Mountains were first named by the Voortrekkers who thought the unbroken chain of heavily weathered peaks reminded them of the spines on a dragon’s back, hence the name ‘Dragon Mountain’ or Drakensberg in Afrikaans.
730 PM // Dinner is served in the dining cars en route to Vooruitsig. Pass Glencoe –site of the first battle of the Anglo Boer War and now the centre of the province’s coalfields –then Newcastle, which has what is reputed to be the largest cella-dome Hindu temple in the southern hemisphere. From here the train descends from Majuba Hill, site of the decisive battle that ended the First Anglo Boer War.

700 AM // Breakfast is served until 10:00. Travel northwest across and the goldfields of the Witwatersrand and the Highveld towards Balfour, a small mining town in Mpumalanga, and Heidelberg, site of the first Rand gold strike.
100 PM // Lunch is served in the dining cars.
400 PM // Arrive at journey’s end at Rovos Rail Station, Pretoria.