Rovos Rail will catch its breath to bed down growth

Travelling on Rovos Rail from Pretoria to Durban is a three-day celebration of sights, sounds and sublime cuisine. Picture: ALLAN SECCOMBER

The latest addition is the breathtakingly daring Dar es Salaam to Lobito in Anglo, crossing through the copperbelt of northern Zambia, into southern Democratic Republic of Congo — a country on few tourists’ schedules — and into central Angola to end at the Atlantic town of Lobito, south of the capital Luanda. The 15-day trip is fully booked up to 2021.

“We’ll focus on maintenance of our coaches, our workmanship in the coaches, staff training and ensuring we remain the most luxurious train in the world. It’s a big statement to make and one which we’ve been able to stand by for 30 years,” she says. “For the next two or three years there are no plans to build more trains.

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