The train stops. The doors of Rovos Rail open onto the African bush. Safari vehicles are waiting. You step off and into the Nambiti Private Game Reserve — 20,000 acres of Big Five territory.
That is the ninth game drive on this journey.
The other eight are at Rhino Ridge Safari Lodge in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi — Africa’s oldest proclaimed nature reserve. Two drives every day, dawn and dusk, through one of the most extraordinary landscapes in South Africa. Between drives, the terrace, the view — and needles in hand.
January is birthing season — lion cubs, elephant calves, baby wildebeest and impala just arrived into the world. And at Boulders Beach, a colony of African penguins goes about its business with complete indifference to us watching in quiet delight.
At Cowgirl Blues in Cape Town, you dye mohair with your own hands — colour drawn from the Cape itself. In the bush, Zulu basket weavers demonstrate a craft that has been alive in this landscape for centuries. In Durban, a specialist unpacks the story of Shweshwe cloth — where it came from, how it was claimed, what it became.
There is something about South Africa that gets into you.
Join us and a very small group of fellow creatives in South Africa, January 15–28, 2027. A few spots remain.
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With Warmth from our studio,
ARNE & CARLOS
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