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Check-in at Walvis Bay Station, Namibia at 10:00 AM. At 11:00 Am, The train departs for Otjiwarongo. Guests may freshen up in their suites before joining fellow travellers in the lounge car or observation car at the rear of the train. Lunch is served in the dining cars at 01:00 PM. The train travels across the Namib Desert towards Otjiwarongo. Tea in the lounge and observation cars. The observation car will be leading the train until lunchtime tomorrow – a different aspect that our rail enthusiasts enjoy. Dinner is served in the dining cars at 07:30 PM. Dress: Formal The Namib stretches for more than 2000km along the Atlantic coasts of Angola, Namibia and South Africa. The geology consists of sand seas near the coast while gravel plains and scattered mountain outcrops occur further inland. The name is of Khoekhoegowab origin and means “vast place”. Having endured arid or semi-arid conditions for roughly 55-80 million years, the Namib may be the oldest desert in the world.
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Dinner, Lunch
Walvis Bay
Your Accommodation
Rovos Rail
The golden age of luxury train travel has been renewed in the heart of the African bush. These beautifully restored trains consist of up to 20 coaches that can be drawn by steam, diesel or electric locomotives operating at various stages of the journey. The sleeping cars as well as the observation and dining cars have been splendidly refurbished in the style of the period but with an eye for modern comfort. The train carries a maximum of 72 passengers who are attended by highly motivated members of staff, and provides a cuisine of superb standard. Rovos Rail offers unique rail safaris through some of the most spectacular scenery in Africa.
At 07:00 AM, Breakfast is served in the dining cars until departure. Transfer (±60 min) to a cheetah conservation project in Otjiwarongo for a visit at 09:00 AM. Founded in Namibia in 1990, the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) is dedicated to saving the cheetah in the wild. At 01:00 PM, Lunch is served in the dining cars en route to Tsumeb. Tea in the lounge car and observation car, which is at the rear of the train. Dinner is served in the dining cars at 07:30 PM. Dress: Formal
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Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch
Cheetah Conservation Project
Your Accommodation
Rovos Rail
The golden age of luxury train travel has been renewed in the heart of the African bush. These beautifully restored trains consist of up to 20 coaches that can be drawn by steam, diesel or electric locomotives operating at various stages of the journey. The sleeping cars as well as the observation and dining cars have been splendidly refurbished in the style of the period but with an eye for modern comfort. The train carries a maximum of 72 passengers who are attended by highly motivated members of staff, and provides a cuisine of superb standard. Rovos Rail offers unique rail safaris through some of the most spectacular scenery in Africa.
Please pack a small overnight bag ready for the stay at Etosha. Tog bags have been placed in your suite for your convenience. At 07:00 AM, Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 10:00 AM. Transfer (±60 min) to a lodge in Etosha for overnight. Check-in and enjoy lunch. Afternoon game drive at 03:00 PM (approximately 3 hours). Dinner and overnight at the lodge at 07:30 PM. Dress: Casual Etosha National Park (22270km2) offers great game viewing with many species of mammals, birds and reptiles. It gets its name from the Etosha pan (4760km2), which almost entirely lies within the park. Etosha is a large salt pan forming part of the Kalahari basin and means ‘Great White Place’.
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Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch
Etosha National Park
Your Accommodation
Rovos Rail
The golden age of luxury train travel has been renewed in the heart of the African bush. These beautifully restored trains consist of up to 20 coaches that can be drawn by steam, diesel or electric locomotives operating at various stages of the journey. The sleeping cars as well as the observation and dining cars have been splendidly refurbished in the style of the period but with an eye for modern comfort. The train carries a maximum of 72 passengers who are attended by highly motivated members of staff, and provides a cuisine of superb standard. Rovos Rail offers unique rail safaris through some of the most spectacular scenery in Africa.
Breakfast is served in the dining cars until departure. Visit a cheetah conservation project in Otjiwarongo. Founded in Namibia in 1990, the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) is dedicated to saving the cheetah in the wild. Lunch is served in the dining cars. Tea is served in the lounge and observation cars. Dinner is served in the dining cars.
Dress: Formal
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Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch
Etosha National Park
Your Accommodation
Rovos Rail
The golden age of luxury train travel has been renewed in the heart of the African bush. These beautifully restored trains consist of up to 20 coaches that can be drawn by steam, diesel or electric locomotives operating at various stages of the journey. The sleeping cars as well as the observation and dining cars have been splendidly refurbished in the style of the period but with an eye for modern comfort. The train carries a maximum of 72 passengers who are attended by highly motivated members of staff, and provides a cuisine of superb standard. Rovos Rail offers unique rail safaris through some of the most spectacular scenery in Africa.
Please pack a small overnight bag for the stay in Sossusvlei. At 07:00 AM, Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 10:00 AM en route to Windhoek.
Transfer to the airstrip at 11:00 AM. Depart in a light aircraft for a one-hour flight to a Sossusvlei lodge for overnight. After check-in, enjoy lunch at the restaurant. At 04:30 PM, Afternoon desert drive and a bush dinner after sunset. Overnight at the lodge. Dress: Casual The dunes of the Namib Desert were created by sand carried by the wind from the coast of Namibia. The sand here is over five million years old and is red in colour due to its iron-oxide content. As the light changes during the day, so does the appearance of the dunes’ characteristic colour allowing for interesting photographs at any time. The wind in the Sossusvlei area blows from all directions causing the sand to form a star shape with multiple arms, hence the name “star dunes”.
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Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch
Sossusvlei
Your Accommodation
Rovos Rail
The golden age of luxury train travel has been renewed in the heart of the African bush. These beautifully restored trains consist of up to 20 coaches that can be drawn by steam, diesel or electric locomotives operating at various stages of the journey. The sleeping cars as well as the observation and dining cars have been splendidly refurbished in the style of the period but with an eye for modern comfort. The train carries a maximum of 72 passengers who are attended by highly motivated members of staff, and provides a cuisine of superb standard. Rovos Rail offers unique rail safaris through some of the most spectacular scenery in Africa.
Please ensure your overnight bag is ready to be collected from your suite before the drive. Bags will be stored in the lodge’s baggage area before being loaded into the aircraft. Time of drive to be confirmed. An early wake-up call with tea and coffee. Enjoy a desert drive with breakfast in the vlei.
Return to the lodge to use the facilities, check-out and transfer to the airstrip. At 11:00 AM, Depart Sossusvlei in a light aircraft for the one-hour flight to Windhoek. At 01:00 PM, Lunch at Windhoek Country Club followed by a city tour. Visit the Trans-Namib Transport Museum, the Independence Memorial Museum, the Evangelical Lutheran Church (a striking landmark) and the Namibia Craft Centre in the old Breweries Building. The train travels south through the Kalahari Desert. Dinner is served in the dining cars en route to Mariental at 07:30 PM. Dress: Formal Situated in Namibia’s central highlands, Windhoek is an attractive city surrounded by clusters of hills and the impressive Auas and Eros Mountains. The Trans-Namib Transport Museum outlines Namibian transport history, particularly that of the railway. The Independence Memorial Museum focuses on the anti-colonial resistance and the national liberation struggle of Namibia.
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Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch
Sossusvlei & Windhoek
Your Accommodation
Rovos Rail
The golden age of luxury train travel has been renewed in the heart of the African bush. These beautifully restored trains consist of up to 20 coaches that can be drawn by steam, diesel or electric locomotives operating at various stages of the journey. The sleeping cars as well as the observation and dining cars have been splendidly refurbished in the style of the period but with an eye for modern comfort. The train carries a maximum of 72 passengers who are attended by highly motivated members of staff, and provides a cuisine of superb standard. Rovos Rail offers unique rail safaris through some of the most spectacular scenery in Africa.
At 07:00 AM, Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 10:00 AM. Lunch is served in the dining cars. At 02:00 PM, Visit Keetmanshoop and Garas Park (Quiver Trees), home to roughly 300 specimens of the Aloe dichotomy. The prehistoric trees have forked branches that reach up to 5m making for great photographic opportunities. Tea in the lounge and observation cars. Depart for Aus. Dinner is served in the dining cars at 07:30 PM. Dress: “Africa” Theme or Smart Casual
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Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch
Keetmanshop & Garas Park
Your Accommodation
Rovos Rail
The golden age of luxury train travel has been renewed in the heart of the African bush. These beautifully restored trains consist of up to 20 coaches that can be drawn by steam, diesel or electric locomotives operating at various stages of the journey. The sleeping cars as well as the observation and dining cars have been splendidly refurbished in the style of the period but with an eye for modern comfort. The train carries a maximum of 72 passengers who are attended by highly motivated members of staff, and provides a cuisine of superb standard. Rovos Rail offers unique rail safaris through some of the most spectacular scenery in Africa.
At 06:00 Am, Breakfast is served in the dining cars until departure. At 08:00 AM, Transfer (±60 min) to the ghost town of Kolmanskop for a visit followed by lunch in Luderitz. Luderitz is known for its museum, colonial architecture and wildlife including seals, penguins, flamingos and ostriches. Look out for the illusive legendary horses rumoured to roam the Namib. Depart for Holoog. The observation car will be leading the train until after dinner. Dinner is served in the dining cars at 07:30 PM. Dress: Formal
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Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch
Luderitz & Kolmanskop
Your Accommodation
Rovos Rail
The golden age of luxury train travel has been renewed in the heart of the African bush. These beautifully restored trains consist of up to 20 coaches that can be drawn by steam, diesel or electric locomotives operating at various stages of the journey. The sleeping cars as well as the observation and dining cars have been splendidly refurbished in the style of the period but with an eye for modern comfort. The train carries a maximum of 72 passengers who are attended by highly motivated members of staff, and provides a cuisine of superb standard. Rovos Rail offers unique rail safaris through some of the most spectacular scenery in Africa.
Breakfast is served at 06:00 AM in the dining cars until departure. Transfer (±60 min) to the Fish River Canyon. At 01:00 PM, Lunch is served in the dining cars. Tea in the lounge and observation cars. Border formalities with South Africa. Dinner is served in the dining cars en route to Upington at 07:30 PM. Dress: Formal The Fish River rises in the centre of the country before flowing south into the Orange River on Namibia’s border with South Africa. It has formed the great Fish River Canyon – the largest canyon in the southern hemisphere and probably only second to Arizona’s Grand Canyon in terms of size. The vast rocky landscape breaks up into a series of spectacular cliffs. Its size is impressive: 161km long, up to 27km wide and almost 550m at its deepest.
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Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch
Fish River Canyon
Your Accommodation
Rovos Rail
The golden age of luxury train travel has been renewed in the heart of the African bush. These beautifully restored trains consist of up to 20 coaches that can be drawn by steam, diesel or electric locomotives operating at various stages of the journey. The sleeping cars as well as the observation and dining cars have been splendidly refurbished in the style of the period but with an eye for modern comfort. The train carries a maximum of 72 passengers who are attended by highly motivated members of staff, and provides a cuisine of superb standard. Rovos Rail offers unique rail safaris through some of the most spectacular scenery in Africa.
Breakfast is served in the dining cars at 06:00 AM. At 08:30 AM, Enjoy a walking tour of Upington with a cruise on the Orange River. Travel 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. Lunch is served in the dining cars at 01:00 PM. Tea in the lounge and observation cars.
Dinner is served in the dining cars en route to Kimberley at 07:30 PM. Dress: Formal The observation car will be leading the train until breakfast.
The Orange River is the longest river in South Africa (2432km/1511mi). It rises in the Drakensberg Mountains in Lesotho and flows westwards through South Africa to the Atlantic Ocean. It forms part of the borders between South Africa and Lesotho and South Africa and Namibia. Except for Upington, it does not pass through any major cities. Attorney General of the Cape, Sir Thomas Upington was principally responsible for liquidating the business activities of all the Orange River pirates and capturing their leader, Klaas Lucas. When the desperadoes were finally chased away in 1884, the town was founded on the banks of the Orange River and named in his honour.
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Breakfast
Upington & The Orange River
Your Accommodation
Rovos Rail
The golden age of luxury train travel has been renewed in the heart of the African bush. These beautifully restored trains consist of up to 20 coaches that can be drawn by steam, diesel or electric locomotives operating at various stages of the journey. The sleeping cars as well as the observation and dining cars have been splendidly refurbished in the style of the period but with an eye for modern comfort. The train carries a maximum of 72 passengers who are attended by highly motivated members of staff, and provides a cuisine of superb standard. Rovos Rail offers unique rail safaris through some of the most spectacular scenery in Africa.
At 07:00 AM, Breakfast is served in the dining cars until departure. Enjoy a tour of Kimberley’s Diamond Mine Museum and the Big Hole. Capital of the Northern Cape, Kimberley is well known for the discovery of diamonds that led to its establishment in 1871. Lunch is served in the dining cars at 01:00 PM. The train continues its climb to Pretoria. Tea in the lounge and observation cars. Dinner is served in the dining cars at 07:30 PM. Dress: “1920s” Theme or Smart Casual
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Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch
Kimberley
Your Accommodation
Rovos Rail
The golden age of luxury train travel has been renewed in the heart of the African bush. These beautifully restored trains consist of up to 20 coaches that can be drawn by steam, diesel or electric locomotives operating at various stages of the journey. The sleeping cars as well as the observation and dining cars have been splendidly refurbished in the style of the period but with an eye for modern comfort. The train carries a maximum of 72 passengers who are attended by highly motivated members of staff, and provides a cuisine of superb standard. Rovos Rail offers unique rail safaris through some of the most spectacular scenery in Africa.
Please ensure luggage is ready for collection 15 minutes before departure and that you have your passport. At 07:00 AM, Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 10:00. Travel through the goldfields of the Witwatersrand. At 13:00, Lunch is served in the dining cars. 17:00, Arrive at the journey's end at Rovos Raul Station, Pretoria.
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Breakfast
Pretoria
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