3 Nights
Rovos Rail Journey
Tour Highlights
DAY 1
CAPE TOWN
This morning you will be picked up from your Cape Town hotel and transferred to the Cape Town Train Station to board the Rovos Rail train and begin your journey.
16:00 Depart from Cape Town Station. Trundle through the winelands of the Western Cape towards Worcester.
16:30 Tea in the lounge and observation cars.
19:30 Dinner is served in the dining cars. The train climbs ±750m up the face of the escarpment. Dress: Formal
Around midnight, the train arrives at the first of four tunnels on the pass.
Accommodation: Pullman Cabin on Rovos Rail
Meals: Dinner & all beverages on board
Activities: N/A
MATJIESFONTEIN
07:00 Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 10:00.
08:00 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.
10:00 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.
13:00 Lunch is served in the dining cars.
16:30 Tea in the lounge and observation cars.
19:30 Dinner is served in the dining cars. Overnight on board.
Accommodation: Pullman Cabin on Rovos Rail
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, all beverages on board
Activities: Village tour in Matjiesfontein
DAY 2
DAY 3
KIMBERLEY
06:00 Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 08:30.
08:30 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.
12:00 Lunch is served in the dining cars. The train travels northeast towards the broad grassland plains of the Highveld.
16:30 Tea in the lounge and observation cars.
19:30 Dinner is served in the dining cars. Overnight on board.
Accommodation: Cabin on Rovos Rail
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, all beverages on board
Activities: Diamond Mine Museum & Big Hole Tour
LAKE ELEMENTAITA
Leaving the Masai Mara after breakfast, travel across the ‘breadbasket’ of Kenya, where acres of wheat and barley dominate the landscape. Lunch will be a picnic stop en route to Lake Nakuru National Park. Arrive at Lake Nakuru in the afternoon and head out on a game drive. Known for its birdlife, the park, with the right climatic conditions, offers the possibility to view thousands of flamingoes feeding in the shallow alkaline lake.
While not a large national park, Lake Nakuru is incredibly scenic and has several unique wildlife sightings that make it a worthwhile visit, including good chances of finding black and white rhinos and the endangered Rothschild Giraffe.
Accommodation: Lake Elementaita Serena Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Activities: Afternoon Game Drive
DAY 4
DAY 5
TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK
After breakfast, continue south towards the Tanzania border and then on to Arusha for lunch. After lunch, you will depart Arusha and pass through the Maasai Steppe, filled with picturesque African villages and coffee and banana plantations. Arrive at Tarangire National Park, enter the park, and begin exploring with a game drive as you slowly make your way to the lodge arriving for dinner.
Tarangire is most famous for its giant baobabs, a network of swamps, and large herds of elephants rumoured to be the largest population in Tanzania. It is less known for a yearly secret migration where masses of wildlife are drawn to the Tarangire River during the dry season as it remains the last viable water source for miles.
Accommodation: Tarangire Sopa Lodge
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Activities: Afternoon Game Drive