Londolozi Game Reserve
Sabi Sand Game Reserve · Sabi Sand & Kruger
A sense of the place
Why it's in the collection
Because long before the word eco-lodge existed the Varty family built it on a bend of the Sand River, in 1926, and it became the original blueprint for the luxury safari camp — wild, soulful, sustainable and purposefully ahead of its time — with five lodges that feel more like a village of thatched roofs, dolerite stone and soft linen, stories passed down through generations, game drives that follow leopard tracks through the grass and evenings that return to open-air dinners — few places in Africa feel this deeply lived in.
- On the Sand River in the Sabi Sand Game Reserve, unfenced to the Kruger; independent house.
- Five lodges in a village of thatch and stone; leopard tracking on every drive; open-air dinners; the family's own airstrip.
- Three MICHELIN Keys in the 2025 selection; holds five-star standing.
The neighborhood
Sabi Sand Game Reserve
The private reserve on the Kruger's western edge, whose lodges wrote the rules of the luxury safari. Unfenced to the park, it is leopard country on the Sand and Sabie rivers.
- The Sand River and its leopards, below the decks.
- Skukuza airport, about an hour and a half by road; the Londolozi airstrip, on the property.
- Johannesburg, an hour by scheduled flight to Skukuza.
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