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
PRETORIA
07:00 Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 09:30.
10:00 *Disembark at Meyerton Station (±100km south of Rovos Rail Station). An optional complimentary transfer (±90min)
from Meyerton Station to Rovos Rail Station in Pretoria is available.
Meals: Breakfast
Activities: Optional transfer to Rovos Rail Station in Pretoria