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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Who hasn’t fantasized about an old-time Orient Express-style adventure, a luxurious vintage train journey through majestic landscapes (sans the murder mystery, of course)? Enter Rovos Rail, for 29 ...

Cape Town - South Africa's iconic luxury rail service, the Rovos Rail, recently purchased the Shongololo Express train of 19 coaches and agreed to employ all the personnel, the luxury coach company ...

Of all the modes of travel, I suspect that more books have been written and more films have been made about trains—yes, even more than ships, cars, and airplanes. And if you take the remarkable Rovos ...

A Rovos Rail luxury train derailed outside Pretoria on Wednesday, killing three and leaving nine critically injured, the railway authority said. Two women were killed, one of whom was pregnant, ...