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Luxury Train Travel An Attractive Alternative
Tours throughout Africa can be arranged through the Rovos rail luxury train travel company, which is located in Pretoria, at Capital Park. This once served as a working station and has now been restored as a museum housing memorabilia of the steam age.
The things that fascinate luxury train aficionados are preserved here lovingly. Big steam locomotives, carriages, rails, signal lights, guards uniforms and shovels and all the paraphernalia that went with the golden age of steam are gathered together. Each exhibit has its own little aura of industrialization. Visitors can absorb the atmosphere of a bye gone age.
It is possible to luxury train travel the length of the continent from Cape to Cairo. Tours to foreign countries such as Tanzania Zambia and Mozambique can be arranged. Each of these countries has many raw attractions and open spaces. Within South Africa itself one can follow the routes to Cape Town or Durban, witnessing the scenes that British soldiers saw themselves as they invaded the Transvaal, after the discovery of gold and diamonds.
Foreigners considering a visit to South Africa should weigh up the pros and cons of alternatives modes of transport. The most obvious is the motor coach. These enormous vehicles with mirrors like ears manoeuvre their way through the busy roads networks. Many roads are under repair and lengthy waits are required. Passengers look out from the coaches. They have comfortable seats, air conditioning and a lively tour guide. Still, they seem to be cramped and one wishes for them that they had space to walk about.
Another option is to hire a car. Here one has the flexibility to choose out-of-the -way destinations. In a country like South Africa this can be problematic because some destinations are dangerous and tourists who wander in looking lost and laden with expensive cameras are instantly in the eyes of criminal predators.
Difficulties might confront even those hirers who do not go off course. On an open and apparently safe road a pair of traffic cops might be lurking behind a bank, with a brand new camera pointed at motorists. They are strangely uninterested in what happens in towns and cities where taxi drivers do as they like but emerge from cover to levy heavy fines on motorists who have left city chaos behind them and sped out on the open road. Such hazards will not arise on a train.
Between the tour coach and the hire car is the option of luxury train travel. One may walk about on the train as it trundles through beautiful countryside. The observation coach has wide deep windows to allow for maximum views, and there are restaurants and bars to allow for travellers to socialize as they travel, enjoying the landscape and the luxury of food and drink simultaneously.
It is worth considering luxury train travel as an opportunity to see the country in a relaxed and leisurely fashion. In addition to seeing the country in this way tourists can enjoy the novelty of stepping back in time towards an easier life.
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