5* Luxury Rovos Rail - Durban Package (3 Nights)

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STARTING FROM R30,409 per person sharing

Reference Nr: PP-TH127610
Book By: 3 Oct `24
Travel Between: 7 Oct `24 - 11 Oct `24
Departure: Self Drive

Package Includes:

3 Nights' on-board the 5* Rovos Rail in a Deluxe Suite from Durban to Pretoria
All meals (Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks and Dinners), selected alcoholic and non - alcoholic beverages on board the train
Off train excursion, Laundry and pressing facility on board
Oneway Transfer from Train Station to The Maslow Time Square
1 Night accommodation at the 4* The Maslow Time Square in the Median Room
Breakfast Daily
Oneway Transfer from The Maslow Time Square to Airport
One way SAA flight including airline levies from Johannesburg - Durban

Valid for Set Departure ONLY DUR TO PTA JOURNEY:
07 - 11 Oct 2024

Rovos Rail Durban to Pretoria Itinerary:

DAY 1: ARDMORE CERAMICS
Depart Durban Station. A number of museums and cultural sights, the beautiful botanical gardens and the superb shark-protected beaches are but a few of the city's many charms. The train traverses the spectacular Valley of a Thousand Hills. Guests may freshen up in their suites before joining fellow travellers in the lounge car and observation car.
Lunch is served in the dining cars.
Visit the famous Ardmore Ceramics Gallery. Here, artists are encouraged to express their imagination based on nature and Zulu folklore and tradition.
Dinner is served in the dining cars en-route to Ladysmith.
Shortly after Frere, on the left of the track, stands a memorial to Winston Churchill who was captured here in
November 1899 while trying to free an armoured train trapped by a Boer ambush.

DAY 2: SPIONKOP& NAMBITI
Breakfast is served in the dining cars until departure.
Transfer (30 min) to Spionkop Lodge for the morning. A choice of two excursions is available:
1. Hear the historic tale of the Battle of Spionkop OR 2. Enjoy a game drive in the 11 000-acre reserve.
Lunch is served in the dining cars. The Drakensberg Mountains were first named by the Voortrekkers who
thought the unbroken chain of heavily weathered peaks reminded them of the spines on a dragon back, hence the name Dragon Mountain or Drakensberg in Afrikaans.
Enjoy a game drive in the Nambiti Reserve, a private Big Five bush retreat set on 20 000 acres of malaria-free bushveld with incredible biodiversity including savannah, grasslands, thornveld and tall acacia trees.
Dinner is served in the dining cars en-route to Vooruitsig. Dress: Formal
Pass Glencoe site of the first battle of the Anglo Boer War and now the centre of the province's coalfields then Newcastle, which has what is reputed to be the largest cella dome Hindu temple in the southern hemisphere.
From here the train descends from Majuba Hill, site of the decisive battle that ended the First Anglo Boer War.

DAY 3: PRETORIA
Breakfast is served until 10:00. Travel northwest across and the goldfields of the Witwatersrand and the Highveld
towards Balfour, a small mining town in Mpumalanga, and Heidelberg, site of the first Rand gold strike.
Lunch is served in the dining cars.
Arrive at journey's end at Rovos Rail Station, Pretoria

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5* Luxury Rovos Rail - Durban Package (3 Nights)

This safari between Pretoria and Durban departs during the summer months and includes game drives, a battlefield tale with a world-class historian and a look at unusual African ceramics. Experience the Nambiti Conservancy a Big Five private retreat set on 20 000 acres of malaria-free bushveld in KwaZulu-Natal. It has incredible biodiversity including savannah, grasslands, thornveld and tall acacia trees. Situated on an expansive game farm, Spionkop Lodge, which adjoins an 11 000-acre nature reserve, is the perfect base for exploring the mountains, bush, birds and battlefields of the region. Ardmore Ceramics is a story about the Zulu people whose sense of rhythm, colour, dance and song, as well as the spirit of the African imagination, is exerting its influence on the other continents of the world. Visit this charming centre in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands before travelling the Valley of a Thousand Hills to Durban.

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All Items of a personal nature. Meals not mentioned.

Terms & Conditions

Valid for SADC Residents Only.
Set Departure only: 07 - 11 October 2024

Prices are from a starting price per person sharing, subject to change, airfare increase and availability. Advance purchase, peak season surcharges, block out periods and minimum stay conditions may apply. Group rates available on request. Thompsons Standard Terms and Conditions may apply. E & OE.