Live Webcams in the Sabi Sand

The Sabi Sand, on the western flank of Kruger National Park, is where South Africa's leopards are easiest to see, and the live webcams in the Sabi Sand give that advantage from an armchair: waterholes below the lodges, riverine bush along the Sand River, and rocky koppie country where the cats lie up through the heat. Nothing is fenced between the private reserves and the national park, so elephant, lion and wild dog move through as they please. Sabi Sands, as most people type it, keeps South African Standard Time, UTC+2 all year, so the golden hour before sunset falls around a European mid-afternoon; after dark the cameras switch to infrared and the night shift of hyena and porcupine begins. The fences with Kruger came down in 1993, turning a line on a map into one ecosystem. May to September, when the grass is low, gives the clearest viewing.