South African Rail Adventure!

The Shongololo Express offers three magnificent routes across Southern Africa. From the shadow of Cape Town’s mighty Table Mountain, you can travel northwest, via impressive canyons and national parks into the Namib desert, home of the world’s largest sand dunes. Or wind your way gently north and east along the beautiful Southern cape, taking in legendary Kruger National Park along the way. You can even continue north from Jo’burg to the peerless Victoria Falls, the world’s widest waterfall and truly a natural wonder of the world.

The Dune Adventure
This route explores the magnificent landscape of Namibia - a beautiful country of extreme contrasts, vast colourful deserts, dunes, almost extra-terrestrial rock formations, great game reserves, delightful coastal towns with old world German hospitality, bushman settlements and the wind vitality of the south Atlantic seaboard. Add to this 3 days to enjoy and explore the many splendours of Cape Town where the tour starts or ends.

The Good Hope Adventure
This journey offers an amazingly comprehensive view of South Africa taking in the internationally regarded "must see" locations. As the train travels the length and breadth of the country guests can enjoy the great variety of landscapes, shorelines, cultures and lifestyles that the "Rainbow Nation" has to offer.

The Southern Cross Adventure
This 16 day journey travels across six countries. The route is carefully crafted to deliver stunning experiences every day. The train travels leisurely between Victoria Falls and Johannesburg making numerous calls at destinations in Mozambique, Swaziland, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. As the tracks unfurl you’ll gain rare insight into the cultural and geographical cocktail that makes Southern Africa so vibrant and exciting.

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Rules

When booking double cabins (Ivory, Gold or Emerald) for single use, a “double cabin” rate will apply.
Children of 12 years and under can only be accommodated if sharing a compartment with ONE PLUS package adult and will therefore pay 60% of the per person sharing price on the PLUS rate. The second adult will be accommodated in their own cabin on a PLUS rate package. Children over the age of 12 years are regarded as adults and will be charged accordingly.
The activities and rates for “Specialized Activities” are subject to availability and change without prior notice.
A non-refundable deposit of 20% of the total tour price is required in order to secure space on any of the departures.
The balance is payable no later than 43 days prior to departure of the tour
The Company reserves the right to cancel any reservation for which the total fare has not been paid by the due date, in which case the deposit will be forfeited.
Full payment is required within 48 hours of confirmation for all bookings made within 43 days of arrival.
It is the responsibility of the Traveler to ensure that details of the confirmation are correct
In the event of cancellation for any reason whatsoever, such notice of cancellation should be given in writing and in such instances, the 20% deposit will be forfeited. In addition, the following cancellation charges will apply:
43 days or more prior to train departure…..No additional cancellation fee
30 days prior to train departure:..........…….25% total cancellation fee
22 days prior to train departure:.........…….50% total cancellation fee
0 days prior to train departure:............……..80% total cancellation fee
All Travelers will be personally responsible for ensuring that they are in the possession of correct travel documents.
Travel documents include: passports for entry into all the countries being visited as part of the booked itinerary
Travel documents include: visas/re-entry permits valid for the countries being visited … It is highly recommended that Travelers confirm and arrange these prior to leaving their home country. In some instances such documents can be arranged on board the trains, in which case costs incurred are for the passenger’s own account.
Travel documents include: health, foreign exchange and other legal requirements.
Prices are subject to change without prior notice.