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View of Victoria Falls between two grassy mountains
Rail Journey

6 Day Rovos Rail Extension

Victoria Falls → Johannesburg
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Trip Code: AFRV6
  • Trip Highlights
  • Map & Itinerary
  • Travel & Accommodation

Your Vacation Includes

  • Experiences in two destinations
  • A total of 13 meals
  • One night in hand-picked accommodation
  • Four nights on board Rovos Rail in a Pullman Suite
  • Transfers and porterage

Map & Itinerary

Africa Map 2024 AFRV6
Victoria Falls → Johannesburg

Following the end of your escorted tour, transfer from Livingstone across the border to Victoria Falls Station in Zimbabwe. After embarkation, guests may freshen up before joining fellow travellers in the lounge or observation car for a convivial toast to your journey ahead. Dinner requires formal dress and is served in the dining cars en route to Malindi. You will stay in your suite overnight on board.

Stay: Four Nights, Rovos Rail, in a Pullman Suite

Daily :
  • Lunch
  • Dinner

A continental breakfast is served in the dining cars. Enjoy a game drive at The Hide in Hwange National Park. Lunch is served in the dining cars. The train travels between Dete and Gwaai along one of the world’s longest stretches of straight railway line – 114 kilometres – and passes Bulawayo: second city of Zimbabwe, capital of Matabeleland and the industrial capital of the country. Tea is served in the lounge and observation cars. Dinner requires formal dress and is served in the dining cars. You will stay in your suite overnight on board.

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Daily :
  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
Rovosrail travelling through fields during sunset

Following an early breakfast, transfer to Matobo National Park for a game drive. Visit the park’s bushmen caves and the grave of Cecil John Rhodes. Rhodes commissioned the Victoria Falls Bridge, connecting Zimbabwe with Zambia, two nations which formerly made up the African territory of Rhodesia, which was notably named after Rhodes. Return to enjoy lunch on board as the train traverses baobab country. Following afternoon tea, dinner requires formal dress and is served in the dining cars en route to Beitbridge. You will stay in your suite overnight on board.

Daily :
  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner

Today is spent at leisure on board. Breakfast is served in the dining cars. The train crosses the Limpopo River to Musina in South Africa. Lunch is served in the dining cars as the train crosses the Tropic of Capricorn. As you watch the passing scenery, partake in afternoon tea ahead of dressing for dinner as the train continues on to Pyramid, passing the edge of the escarpment where the Highveld drops precipitously. You will stay in your suite overnight on board.

Daily :
  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner

Today, after a final breakfast on board, arrive in Pretoria at the Rovos Rail Station. Transfer to Johannesburg and your overnight accommodation.

Stay: Johannesburg, Peermont D’Oreale Grande

Daily :
  • Breakfast

After breakfast this morning, be transferred to the airport for your onward flight home.

Daily :
  • Breakfast

It has been a privilege to welcome so many guests aboard APT’s award-winning journeys, and a joy to see those guests fall in love with each new experience the world presents.

Geoff McGeary OAM – APT Company Owner -