Durban Safari Tour By Rovos Rail - 3 Days / 2 Nights
This safari between Pretoria and Durban departs during the summer months and include a game drive, 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 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. Available in reverse.
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towards Heidelberg, site of the first Rand gold strike, and Balfour, a small mining town in Mpumalanga. 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. 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’s back,
hence the name ‘Dragon Mountain’ or Drakensberg in Afrikaans.
Tea in the lounge and observation cars. The train climbs to Majuba Hill – site of the decisive battle that ended
the First Anglo Boer War – then passes Newcastle, which has what is reputed to be the largest cella-dome
Hindu temple in the southern hemisphere.
Enjoy a game drive in the Nambiti Reserve, a private Big Five bush retreat set on 20 000 acres of malariafree bushveld with incredible biodiversity including savannah, grasslands, thornveld and tall acacia trees.
Brunch is served in the dining cars.
Transfer (±30 min) to Spionkop Lodge for the afternoon. A choice of two excursions is available:
1. Hear the historic tale of the Battle of Spionkop while overlooking the reserve OR
2. Enjoy a nature drive in the 11 000-acre reserve.
Dinner is served in the dining cars en route to Estcourt. Dress: Formal
Shortly after Chieveley, on the right 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.
Visit the famous Ardmore Ceramics Gallery. Here, artists are encouraged to express their imagination based
on nature and Zulu folklore and tradition.
Lunch is served in the dining cars. The train traverses the spectacular Valley of a Thousand Hills.
Arrive at journey’s end at 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.
