Rovos Rail: Cape Town Train Route

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The Rovos Rail Pretoria & Cape Town train holiday is an extremely popular train route and perhaps the best illustration of the notion that South Africa is a world-in-one country.

A Journey Through the Heartland

Depart from Cape Town, and travel along the tumbling cliffs of the Cape coastline, home to two oceans; the warm Indian and icy Atlantic oceans which wrestle and thunder at the southern tip of Africa.

From the manicured vineyards and mountain ranges of the Cape, travel across South Africa's heartland. Climb mountains, descend into forested valleys, and travel sedately across the haunting, barren beauty of the Great Karoo.

Approaching the Highveld, witness the landscape catch fire with red earth, grasslands and golden savannah fields; an appropriate introduction to Johannesburg - known as the City of Gold.

Your Cape Town train route ends on a stylish note at Pretoria's Capital Park Station. This private railway station is frozen in a time of hissing steam engines, smoky station platforms, neatly dressed porters and elegant ambiances.

Diamonds & Railway Yards

Both the north and southbound Cape Town and Pretoria train routes share the same off-train highlights.

Visit the century-old, perfectly preserved Victorian village of Matjiesfontein, the famous diamond town of Kimberley, and the Kimberley Big Hole - a testament to how the good old diamond rush days turned a hillside into the largest man-made excavation in the world.

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