Rovos Rail adds Additional Night to Victoria Falls Journey

For improved operational timing and passenger comfort we will be increasing our Victoria Falls Journey from 2-nights/3-days to 3-nights/4-days . We have included a superb morning game drive at The Hide in Zimbabwe’s largest reserve, the Hwange National Park – one of the world’s richest and most diverse wildlife sanctuaries!

This change will be effective from 1 July 2014. Pleasingly we will be able to hold the existing 2013/2014 published rates for the new itinerary from 1 July 2014 to 30 September 2014, after which the usual annual rates changes will be implemented.

The journey departs as usual from Rovos Rail Station in Pretoria on selected Thursdays at 09h30 and arrives into Victoria Falls at 10h00 on the Sunday morning, allowing for a full day of activities at The Falls. The southbound departure is at 17h00 on the same Sunday, arriving back Pretoria at 10h00 on the Wednesday.

Advantages of these timings are as follows:

• Full days of activities are possible on both the northbound arrival into Victoria Falls as well as the southbound day of departure from Victoria Falls.
• Arrival into Rovos Rail Station in Pretoria at 10h00 allows for effective same-day flight connections to the Kruger Park, Durban, Cape Town or Port Elizabeth.

This three-night adventure begins with the train’s departure from Rovos Rail’s gracious station in Pretoria. It then winds its way south through Johannesburg and the goldfields of the Witwatersrand before travelling west alongside the Magaliesberg Mountains.

After border formalities at Mafikeng, the train travels north the following day through Botswana’s capital, Gaborone, crosses the Tropic of Capricorn and continues via Mahalapye and Francistown to the Zimbabwean border at Plumtree. The next day the train passes through Hwange National Park – a rich and diverse wildlife sanctuary – where animals can be spotted from the train and a game drive excursion is enjoyed.

After a service stop at Thompsons Junction, the sojourn ends at the incomparable Victoria Falls on the mighty Zambezi River. The surrounding areas offer travellers many recreational opportunities including cruises, whitewater rafting as well as superb game viewing and photo safaris. Available in reverse.

Please note that depending upon railway capacity this journey could be routed northwards through Beitbridge and Zimbabwe.

The afore-mentioned itinerary change expands our offerings to:

• 2-night Cape Town Journey (weekly)
• 2-night Durban Safari (2 x monthly)
• 3-night Victoria Falls Journey (2 x monthly)
• 8-night African Golf Collage (3 x annually)
• 8-night Golf Safari (4 x annually)
• 8-night Namibia Safari ( 2 x annually)
• 13-night Cape Town and Dar es Salaam (3 x annually)
• 27-night Cape Town and Cairo (every 2 years)