Rovos Rail departs Cape Town for first-ever journey to Lobito

[John Ashworth]

Rovos Rail’s Pride of Africa left Cape Town for first-ever epic journey to Lobito

Under its plans to connect Africa through vintage tourist journeys, Rovos Rail train, the Pride of Africa is now on its way, rolling northwards from Cape Town in South Africa to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania before launching its first ever trip to connect the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.

The train, Pride of Africa is now rolling, cutting through Southern Africa states to Eastern Africa, on the Indian Ocean coast in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Reports from Rovos Rail company in Pretoria said that the train had left Cape Town few days ago to arrive in Dar es Salaam next Saturday after a roughly two week vintage journey.

It left Cape Town for Dar es Salaam on June 29 to arrive next Saturday, July 13, before launching its first-ever maiden voyage from Dar es Salaam to Lobito in Angola. The train can accommodate up to 72 passengers, all tourists.

“It will be the first time in history that a passenger train will travel the east-to-west copper trail. Our new route coincides nicely with our 30th birthday. I’d like to say it was planned but I can’t take credit for the serendipitous timing,” said Rohan Vos...

[John Ashworth]

Coast-to-coast cruise train crosses Africa

On August 2 a passenger train set out on the return leg of a coast-to-coast trip across Africa. Departing from the port of Lobito on Angola’s Atlantic coast and bound for the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam on the Indian Ocean, the train had arrived in Lobito on July 30, having left the Tanzanian city two weeks earlier...