700 AM // Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 10:00. The train crosses the Tropic of Capricorn en route to Louis Trichardt.
100 PM // Lunch is served in the dining cars. Lunch is served in the dining cars. Border formalities with South Africa.
430 PM // Tea in the lounge and observation cars. The train crosses the Limpopo River en route to Beitbridge for border Cape formalities with Zimbabwe. In Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, the ‘Elephant’s Child’ departs his family for the “great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to find out what the Crocodile has for dinner.”
730 PM // Dinner is served in the dining cars en route to Gwanda.

600 AM // Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 09:00. The train travels baobab country and ascends to Bulawayo: second city of Zimbabwe, capital of Matabeleland and industrial capital of the country.
1200 PM // Lunch is served in the dining cars. 
130 PM // Transfer (±45 min) to Matobo National Park for a game drive. Visit bushmen caves and the grave of Cecil John Rhodes.
600 PM // Depart for Sawmills.
730 PM // Dinner is served in the dining cars.

700 AM // Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 10:00.  The train travels between Gwaai and Dete along one of the world’s longest stretches of straight railway line – 114 kilometres – and along the eastern edge of Hwange Park.
100 PM // Lunch is served in the dining cars.
300 PM // Enjoy a game drive at The Hide in Hwange National Park.
730 PM // Dinner is served in the dining cars en route to Thompsons Junction for overnight.

700 AM // Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 09:30.
1000 AM // Arrive at journey’s end at the incomparable Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe