This is what it’s like to ride Rovos Rail, Africa’s most luxurious train

Time is the topic du jour. Ask anyone, and they’ll most likely say it always seems to escape them. In a world so governed by the rhythms of the ticking hour, time, in every essence, is what we all covet.

Since I was a child, my mother always said that the concept of time was best understood through the perfectly framed landscapes seen from the windows of a train. From station to station, the sedate, slow, rhythmic pace of each rolling snapshot has always been something eerily comforting and…