Rovos Rail’s clickety-click allows time to click with new cliques
Touted as the world’s most luxurious train, this elegant hotel on wheels draws people from across the world
The weekend friendship on Rovos, the world’s most luxurious train, started with a nicely international group basking in the celebrity glow radiating off a top Australian baker. The conversation in the group of eight Australians, Americans, Brits and South Africans was almost casually steered in the direction of Florentines by Kerri as we sat on the open observation coach at the back of a Rovos train taking a three-day meander from Pretoria to Durban. The words “blue-ribbon winner” and “Florentines” proved immediately riveting to the group as we sipped on the finest local wines or fancy gins as the lush countryside fresh from end-of-summer rains unravelled behind us. To be on a train trundling along at 60km/h through the escarpment and then snaking down through the Drakensberg before the gorgeousness of the Midlands and the weaving track from Pietermaritzburg to Durban is one thing.
Being ensconced in luxury that is the hallmark of Rovos is another entirely otherworldly expe...
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