Cape Town to Cairo on Rovos Rail 2014

Upon arrival in Cape Town you will be transferred to the Cape Grace Hotel for dinner and an overnight stay.

In the morning you will go on a wine tasting excursion at Groot Constantia and visit Table Mountain. (Lunch will be provided en route and you will have dinner at the V&A Waterfront).

Today you will go on a city tour of Cape Peninsula visiting: Fish Hoek, Cape Point, Simonstown, Hout Bay, Chapman’s Peak Drive and Kirstenbosch. Lunch will be provided en route and dinner will be at the hotel.

Depart on the Rovos Rail for Pretoria at 11am and in the early evening you will visit the village of Matjiesfontein.

In the early afternoon you will arrive in Kimberley and visit the Big Hole and Diamond Mine Museum.

After arrival in Pretoria you will enjoy a city tour and transfer in the early evening to your hotel.

The Rovos Rail will depart today at 10am for Botswana.

Today you will travel through Botswana and have a day at leisure on board.

In the late afternoon you will reach Victoria Falls where you will be transferred to the Victoria Falls Hotel for 3 nights.

You can choose how you spend today, you could; enjoy a tour of the Victoria Falls, go on a helicopter ride or for the more adventurous go river rafting. You will also go on a sunset cruise on the Zambezi River and then return to the hotel for the night.

In the morning you will take a flight from Victoria Falls to Zanzibar where you will transfer to the Zanzibar Serena Hotel for 2 nights. In the afternoon you will take a tour of Stone Town.

In the morning you will enjoy an Island Spice Tour and then spend the afternoon at leisure.

In the morning you will fly to Kilimanjaro, Tanzania where you will be driven for 2 ½ hours to Ngorongoro Farmhouse for 2 nights.

Today you will go on a game drive excursion to the Ngorongoro Crater and enjoy lunch on the floor of it!

Today you will be transferred to Masek Tented Camp in the Serengeti Plains where you will take an afternoon game drive and spend 2 nights.

There will be morning and afternoon game drives today.

Fly to Kilimanjaro airport in the morning for Entebbe, Uganda where you will be split into 2 groups. One will visit the chimpanzees on Ngamba Island and the other will visit Jinja, the source of the Nile. You will spend the night at the Lake Victoria Serena Resort.

Today you will either visit the chimpanzees on Ngamba Island or Jinja.

You will be transferred today to Khartoum in Sudan and stay at the Burj Al Fateh for 2 nights.

There are 2 options for today either go on a full day tour to the sites of Naga and Masawwarates-Sufra (Packed lunch) or a half day tour of Khartoum with lunch at the hotel.

You will take a morning flight today to Abu Simbel in Egypt where you will visit the Abu Simbel temples and board the Kasr Ibrim for the Lake Nasser cruise. You will spend an afternoon at leisure, lunch, dinner and the night on board the cruise.

This morning you will enjoy a tour from the sun deck on board and at Amada visit the temples of Amada, Derr and the tomb of Penout. In afternoon you will sail to Wadi El Seboua and spend the night on board the ship.

Today you will visit Wadi El Seboua, the temples of Dakka and Maharakka as well as sail to Aswan.

This morning you will be transported by road to Luxor and on the way visit the Edfu Temple. Upon arriving in Luxor you will see the Karnak temple and spend the night at the Hilton Luxor Resort & Spa.

This morning you will visit the West Bank of Luxor (Valley of the Kings, Queens, the Temple of Hatshepsut and Colossi of Memnon). The afternoon will be spent visit the Luxor Temple.

On day 26, you will fly to Cairo and travel to Al Azhar Park for lunch and afterwards visit the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities. You will stay at the Four Seasons First Residence Hotel where you can enjoy views of the Nile and the Great Pyramids.

On your final full day you will visit the Giza Pyramids, Sphinx, Saqqara and Memphis. In the evening there is a goodbye dinner and you will spend the night again at the Four Seasons.