Sabi Sabi

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Sabi Sabi is a private game reserve in South Africa, situated in the Sabi Sand Reserve which is in the South Western section of the Kruger National Park.

It is a conservation area where the Big 5 (lion, leopard, rhino, buffalo, elephant) occur naturally. There are safaris in open land rovers during the day and at night, and there are also guided bush walks. Sabi Sabi has four separate lodges, Earth Lodge, Bush Lodge, Selati Lodge and Little Bush Camp. There is a licensed airstrip at Sabi Sabi with scheduled flights from Johannesburg, as of June 2007 the strip has ICAO location indicator FASE. The area is also accessible by car on good national roads from Johannesburg.

The popular website Africam features a view from a tree over Nkhoro Pan waterhole. The variety of animals visiting includes: African wildcat, Black-backed jackal, Blue wildebeest, Burchell's zebra, Cape buffalo, Chacma baboon, Cheetah, Civet, Common duiker, Elephant, Giraffe, Hippopotamus, Impala, Kudu, Large-spotted genet, Leopard, Lion, Reedbuck, Scrub hare, Side-striped jackal, Slender mongoose, Spotted hyena, Steenbok, Tree squirrel, Vervet monkey, Warthog, Waterbuck, White rhinoceros, White-tailed mongoose, Wild dog, Also seen here are a variety of birds including saddle-billed storks, vultures, cattle egrets and brown-headed parrots, as well as a couple of reptiles and invertebrates.