Rovos Rail tourist train is on its way from Cape Town to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania on its annual vintage trip from the tip of the African continent to its heart, rolling through famous tourist ...

Welcome onboard one of the World’s Greatest Rail Journeys with Rovos Rail: First Class on Africa’s Safari Train (4 Nights, 88 ...

Reporting from Cape Town, South Africa — There I was, paddling down the Zambezi River in Zambia, surrounded by hungry hippos and crocodiles with a predatory gleam in their yellow-green eyes. This was ...

How is it possible to go from selling scrapped motorcycle parts to establishing one of the grandest travel trains in the world? Courtesy Gatehouse Media In 1986, despite having no experience in the ...

The best seats aboard Rovos Rail's Pride of Africa are undeniably on the back deck of the observation car. They're just wooden benches, really, average in design, but this open-air balcony is where ...

Today I'm taking the famous Rovos Rail luxury train for 96 hrs across South Africa. Join me on this adventure from Cape Town ...

Sometimes, there’s something to be said for slow travel. Sure, a plane ride between South Africa’s Cape Town and Pretoria will take two hours, but it won’t have the same romance as a two-day train ...

PRETORIA, South AfricaPRETORIA, South Africa — A luxury train carrying foreign tourists, most of them Americans, derailed Wednesday in South Africa’s capital, killing two crew members and injuring ...

A vintage train popular with UK holidaymakers visiting South Africa has derailed killing at least two people and injuring dozens more. Seventeen carriages of the Rovos Rail train, which was travelling ...

A restored vintage train carrying tourists on a luxury rail safari derailed in Pretoria killing three people - including a mother and her baby, which was born after the crash. Seventeen coaches of the ...