This Rovos Rail Cape Town to Dar es Salaam train journey (or vice versa) invites you to travel on the most luxurious train in the world. An epic 16 day/15 night signature tour! The train travels through Africa from South Africa to Tanzania. It's one of the most famous train journeys in the world, all the incomparable luxury of the Rovos Rail vintage train!
This 16-day trip is the ultimate African safari, carrying a band of intrepid adventurers through the heartlands of South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and onto Tanzania. It is designed for people who wish to re-live true adventure and romance in complete luxury, comfort and security.
The journey first travels through South Africa, visiting Matjiesfontein, the diamond town of Kimberley, and Pretoria before having a two day safari in Madikwe Game Reserve. You then continue on via Botswana to Victoria Falls where you stay overnight at the famous Victoria Falls Hotel.
After time enjoying the various delights of Victoria Falls, you cross the mighty Zambezi river and travel through Zambia visiting the Chisimba Falls. The train climbs higher and higher into the midpoint of Africa's two Great Rift Valley lakes. You descend into the Rift Valley itself and enjoy spectacular scenery. The train negotiates the tunnels, switchbacks and viaducts of the Rift Valley escarpment. On the final day you travel through one of the largest game reserves in Africa, enjoying a game drive before continuing to journey's end. The train arrives in bustling Dar es Salaam in Tanzania the next day.
You enjoy various lectures by an entertaining historian during the journey as well as plenty of off-train excursions. This luxury train trip is also available in reverse, ending in Cape Town.
Rovos Rail Cape Town to Dar es Salaam - Choose from three different compartment sizes (all en suite):
Cape Town to Dar es Salaam:
2025: 4 - 19 Jul, 23 Sept - 8 Oct
2026: 9 - 25 Jan, 2- 18 July, 6 - 22 Oct (16 nights)
Dar es Salaam to Cape Town:
2025: 28 Jan - 12 Feb, 11-26 Oct
2026: 28 Jan - 13 Feb, 21 July - 6 Aug (16 nights)
We can tailor-make a variety of pre-train trips in Cape Town and we strongly recommend that you add on a safari in Tanzania at the end, visiting the Ngorongoro Crater, Serengeti and perhaps Zanzibar for some post-trip relaxation.
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This is a set tour using specific camps. However many tours can be adapted. Chat to us about your options. It excludes international flights but includes an estimate for all domestic or regional flights within the tour.
Accommodation; all meals; all beverages on board; room service; limited laundry; excursions with a qualified guide (where applicable); entrance fees as per itinerary; on-board historian and doctor; government tax.
EXCLUDESInternational sparkling wine; gratuities; personal expenses; visas; travel insurance; pre- and post-tour accommodation, flights and transfers; items of a personal nature.
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