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Photoblog:Rovos Rail through the Karoo.

October 8, 2013 By Lauren M 6 Comments

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On our trip from Cape Town to Pretoria aboard the world’s most luxurious train- The Rovos Rail, we travelled through the Karoo. The Karoo is the semi-desert region of South Africa and we were able to experience it’s barren beauty from sunrise to sunset from the train. Here’s a glimpse of our journey through the Karoo…

Rovos Rail through the Karoo
Sunrise in chilly Deelfontein.

Rovos Rail through the Karoo
Watching the sunrise from the Observation Car before anyone else on the train is awake.

Rovos Rail through the Karoo
Breakfast is about to served in the dining car.

Rovos Rail through the Karoo
Vaughan documenting his journey aboard the train.

Matjiesfontein
Our stop in Matjiesfontein.

Rovos Rail through the Karoo
We passed windmills in the middle of nowhere,

Rovos Rail through the Karoo
construction workers attending to the railways

Rovos Rail through the Karoo
and unexpected patches of green.

Rovos Rail through the Karoo
We saw tiny, deserted train stations

Rovos Rail through the Karoo
farm houses beside the tracks

Rovos Rail through the Karoo
and people waving at us as we passed by.

Rovos Rail through the Karoo
Vaughan tried on the goggles given to us for flying bugs

Rovos Rail through the Karoo
and eyed the passing windmills and trees.

Karoo
At every hour of the day the dry landscape changed.

Rovos Rail through the Karoo
The last of the day’s sun shining into the lounge.

Rovos Rail through the Karoo
Just outside of Kimberly, we are relaxed in the lounge car

Rovos Rail through the Karoo
and watch hundreds of flamingos wading in the Kamfer dam.

Rovos Rail through the Karoo
From our suite, I watched the sun leave the last of its warm rays on the dry land…

Rovos Rail through the Karoo

Rovos Rail through the Karoo
Cows grazed

Rovos Rail through the Karoo
windmills spun

Rovos Rail through the Karoo
and the sun sunk ever lower over passing rivines.

Rovos Rail through the Karoo
There were many houses made of tin built right beside the railway

Rovos Rail through the Karoo
where a young boy waved and became silhouetted against the sunset.

Rovos Rail through the Karoo
There is no better place to watch a Karoo sunset than from the Rovos Rail.

Click here for details of our –> South African Road Trip 2013.

Filed Under: Africa, Capture Tagged With: cape town, karoo, luxury, photography, pretoria, rovos rail, south africa, sunset, Train

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