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- The adventure begins as the train departs the gracious station at Capital Park in Pretoria, pausing in Witbank, a rich coal-mining area, where Rovos Rail was founded in 1986. At this town, too, the intrepid young Winston Churchill leapt aboard a freight train to escape from his Anglo Boer War captors.
- Retrace his route towards Mozambique, before descending the breathtaking Drakensberg Escarpment.
- Enjoy the descent between the quaint towns of Waterval Boven and Waterval Onder. It is one of the most challenging in the world as the train winds through many switchbacks and tunnels.
- Journey on in comfort through the lush, sub-tropical Mpumulanga bushveld, through country that inspired Henry Rider Haggard's yarns of African adventure, to Nelspruit and the Crocodile River valley.
- Follow the border of the world-famous Kruger Park towards Hazyview and Hoedspruit the heart of South Africa's celebrated game-viewing paradise.
- Ascend the Highveld through the tangled indigenous forests of Magoebaskloof, with its deep gorges and ancient cliffs where "living fossil" cycads flourish, before arriving in the high-lying land of the primeval Baobab tree.
- Travel past tea estates, trout streams, natural woodlands and then through some of South Africa's vast citrus estates.
- At Pietersburg board a classic aircraft for the two - hour flight to journeys end, the incomparable Victoria Falls on the mighty Zambezi River.
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