1930’s Rail Travel for the Leisured Elite

If you’re thinking Orient Express, forget it. Think bigger, better and slower. Rovos Rail boasts the most luxurious trains in the world: The Pride of Africa.:

Rain, rain, go away – I’ve just arrived at the Capital Park Station in Pretoria, South Africa for a 1,600-kilometre train ride to Cape Town. I’ve been two weeks in Africa so far – sunny, hot, dry southern Africa – and now the heavens have opened the gates. The parking lot puddles are pools already. I quickly slip through the doors of the station house and enter the grand salon of a century-old novel...

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