500 AM // A continental breakfast is served in the dining cars until departure.

600 AM // Enjoy a game drive in Hwange National Park, the nation’s largest wildlife area at 1 462000ha.

1200 PM // 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 industrial capital of the country.

430 PM // Tea is served in the lounge and observation cars. 

730 PM // Dinner is served in the dining cars.

600 AM // Breakfast is served in the dining cars until departure.

800 AM // Transfer to Matobo National Park for a game drive.Visit bushmen caves and the grave of Cecil John Rhodes.

100 PM // Lunch is served in the dining cars as the train travels baobab country.

430 PM // Tea in the lounge and observation cars as the train descends to Gwanda.

730 PM // Dinner is served in the dining cars en route to Beitbridge for Zimbabwean border formalities

700 AM // Breakfast is served in the dining cars. The train crosses the Limpopo River to Musina for South African border formalities. In Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, the ‘Elephant’s Child’ departs his family for the “great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to find out what the Crocodile has for dinner.”

100 PM // Lunch is served in the dining cars.The train crosses the Tropic of Capricorn.

430 PM // Tea is served in the lounge and observation cars. 

730 PM // Dinner is served in the dining cars en route to Pyramid, passing the edge of the escarpment where the Highveld drops precipitously

700 AM // Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 09:30.

1000 AM // Arrive at journey’s end at Rovos Rail Station, Pretoria.