“Pinch me!” said Yvonne Sekula of Atlanta. “This isn’t real. It’s just too good to be true!”My friend was referring to her first experience aboard South Africa’s Blue Train, which on ...

I spent 72 hours aboard The Blue Train - one of the world’s most luxurious sleeper trains - and it was an experience like no ...

Guests board the Blue Train at the Cape Town train station in South Africa, in March 2025. The Blue Train, whose origins date back a century, is meant to evoke exclusivity.

Escape from Covid: South Africa's luxury 'Blue Train' On board the Blue Train (South Africa) (AFP) – Issued on: 05/03/2021 - 04:58. Advertising. Read more ...

The Blue Train will run roughly once a week in 2019 between Cape Town to Pretoria and in the opposite direction. From 2019 the journey time will increase to 39 hours and take place over two nights.

Unabashedly calling itself the world's most luxurious train, South Africa's Blue Train counts Nelson Mandela and Imran Khan amongst its celebrity passengers. After over a century in service the ...

Since 1946, it's transported presidents and kings and potentates through the mountains, deserts, savannahs, and veldts of South Africa. With an elegant ambience reminiscent of a gentler age, it offers ...

WHY IT RATES: Railbookers introduces new selection of train vacations in South Africa. For two weeks only, travelers can save $400 per couple on any South Africa itinerary, which includes the ...