Christmas & New Year Tours & Trips in Sabi Sand National Park

Celebrate the holidays with game drives through Sabi Sand Game Reserve and Kruger National Park's private concession during November-December departures. You'll stay at Inyati Game Lodge and Hamiltons Tented Camp, having festive dinners under African stars after tracking leopards and the Big 5. Spend New Year surrounded by wildlife in luxury tented suites with private plunge pools and teak floorboards.

Lion Sands Ivory Lodge in Sabi Sand Game Reserve offers morning and afternoon game drives across 7,000 hectares where you can track leopards and lions through the 65,000-hectare Sabi Sand area, with southern Kruger National Park as your backdrop. Your suite includes all meals and drinks, then you'll head to the Zambezi River for a New Year's Eve sundowner cruise before touring Victoria Falls and finishing at The Stanley & Livingstone Boutique Hotel in the Victoria Falls Private Game Reserve.

You'll spend 5 nights at andBeyond Tengile River Lodge in Sabi Sand Game Reserve, where twice-daily game drives and early morning bush walks let you see the Big Five roaming near your 200-square-meter suite overlooking the Sand River. Then it's off to Benguerra Island for 5 nights at andBeyond Benguerra Island Lodge, where beachfront cabanas have private plunge pools and you can take sunset dhow cruises plus guided snorkeling through coral reefs in the Bazaruto marine reserve.

Twice-daily game drives through Sabi Sand's wildlife corridors let you track leopards and the Big Five, with festive boma dinners under the stars at Nottens Bush Camp. Open Land Rovers give you 360-degree views during sunset safaris with sundowners, followed by spotlight night drives that show nocturnal species you won't see during the day, then the trip ends with a flight to Cape Town for Table Mountain Aerial Cableway visits.