KRUGER SHALATI TRAIN ON A BRIDGE TO OPEN AS LUXURY HOTEL IN SOUTH AFRICA

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When it opens later in the year, the Kruger Shalati Train on a Bridge will be a boutique hotel like no other, occupying a converted steam engine parked on a bridge in South Africa’s Kruger safari park. By Erica Jamieson
Perched high above a crocodile-infested river in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, a new boutique hotel housed within a renovated steam train hopes to open in September 2020, offering 31 luxury rooms that hark back to a bygone era of privilege and exploration.

Permanently stationed on the 300-metre-long Selati Bridge above the Sabie River, the Kruger Shalati Train on the Bridge pays homage to the first tourists that came to Kruger in the early 1920s, when the train would park overnight on the same spot where the Kruger Shalati will be positioned.