Experience
Luxury Rail Journeys
About this experience
What to expect.
Incorporating a great train journey into your travel itinerary adds a unique perspective to your vacation. With some of the best-escorted rail tours in the world, traveling by train in Southern Africa has become a firm favorite in recent years. Rail passage to game reserves, through Winelands, to historic sites and across the wide-open countryside of the Karoo region, creates an extraordinary travel experience.
Itineraries
Safaris built around luxury rail.
Real, ready-to-tailor journeys that include this experience. Ordered by what guests pick most.
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Where to stay
Lodges suited to luxury rail.
Lodges across the region that offer this experience. Ordered by what guests pick most. Rates per person sharing, per night.
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01 South AfricaThe Rovos Rail
Rovos Rail's Pullman Suites are the entry-level cabins aboard one of the world's most refined train journeys, used mostly on shorter routes across southern Africa. Each suite sleeps one or two guests with an en-suite shower room, and converts from a sofa-seated lounge by day to double or twin berths by night.
Current offers
Honeymoon
5-night combined package: 3 nights Rovos Rail Victoria Falls Journey + 2 nights Stanley & Livingstone Boutique Hotel Zimbabwe (or reverse)
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Luxury Rail Journeys, in pictures.
Recent travellers
Word from people who have just come back.
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