Victoria Falls dinner train

Departing from the Royal Livingstone Hotel at Victoria Falls, the antique locomotive Royal Livingstone Express offers a 6-course dinner aboard and chances to spot elephants, buffalo and other wildlife on a 12-mile, 3-hour trip along the Zambezi River and through Mosi-Oa-Tunya Game Park in Zambia.

The train has a lounge car, an observation car, a kitchen car and two dining cars with wooden interiors plus tables with damask linens, crystal glassware and silver cutlery.

At a cost of $150 per person, including hotel/train station transfers, the trip takes place Wednesday through Saturday. It’s operated by Sun International Zambia (U.S. office at International Place, 1560 Sawgrass Corporate Pkwy., 4th Fl., Sunrise, FL 33323; call 954/331-8135, e-mail SAinfo@sun-int.net or visit www.suninternational.com).

A room at the hotel runs about $800-$900 per night.