Rovos Rail

8 September 2022Scheduled Tour

Rovos Rail – Durban – Pretoria

This short Rovos rail safari between Durban and Pretoria departs during the summer months and includes game drives, a battlefield tale with a world-class historian and a look at unusual African ceramics.

Day 1

Day 1 - On train Rovos Rail
Type: Train Fully Inclusive - Bed, All Meals, Fees and Activities

1000 AM // Depart Durban Station. A number of museums and cultural sights, the beautiful botanical gardens and the superb shark-protected beaches are but a few of the city’s many charms. The train traverses the spectacular Valley of a Thousand Hills. Guests may freshen up in their suites before joining fellow travellers in the lounge car and observation car.
100 PM // Lunch is served in the dining cars. Visit the famous Ardmore Ceramics Gallery. Here artists are encouraged to express their imagination based on nature and Zulu folklore and tradition.
730 PM // Dinner is served in the dining cars en route to Ladysmith. Shortly after Frere, on the left of the track, stands a memorial to Winston Churchill who was captured here in November 1899 while trying to free an armoured train trapped by a Boer ambush.

Day 2

Day 2 - Nambiti Game Reserve
Rovos Rail
Type: Train Nambiti Game Reserve
Fully Inclusive - Bed, All Meals, Fees and Activities

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.

Day 3

Departure Day
B&B: Bed and Breakfast

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.

Start Date	End Date	Pullman Sharing	Deluxe Sharing	Royal Sharing
11 Sep 2023	13 Sep 2023	28,700	42,800	58,000
16 Oct 2023	18 Oct 2023	31,200	46,500	63,000
20 Nov 2023	22 Nov 2023	31,200	46,500	63,000
22 Jan 2024	24 Jan 2024	31,200	46,500	63,000
12 Feb 2024	14 Feb 2024	31,200	46,500	63,000
25 Mar 2024	27 Mar 2024	31,200	46,500	63,000
15 Apr 2024	17 Apr 2024	31,200	46,500	63,000
09 Sep 2024	11 Sep 2024	31,200	46,500	63,000

Single Supplement on all suites is 50%.

Included / Not Included

Accommodation.
All Meals and local brand drinks.
Guided excursions.
Limited laundry.

International airfare.
Visas if required.
Travel insurance.
Airport transfers.
Gratuities.
Items of a personal nature.

Prices are based on current exchange rates. The selling currency may be different from the one displayed.

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