This little village, with its colorful history, is probably the most picturesque and charming spot in the area. 
In 1873, Alec Patterson found alluvial gold in the stream which flows through the valley. The news spread like wild-fire and sparked off the world's biggest gold rush of the time. Before long, the town had twenty-one stores, three bakeries, various drinking halls and many other establishments.

Nowhere else in the world was gold ever mined in more beautiful and romantic surroundings. Mining continued until 1972 when the last operations ceased. 

Today Pilgrim's Rest is a living museum, preserved in the exact architectural style of the gold rush period, boasting various buildings, unchanged externally for more than a century. No visit to this area is complete without exploring the magic of Pilgrim's Rest AND TRYING YOUR HAND AT GOLD PANNING.

Chaos erupted when a rhino got stuck in the mud in a waterhole near a pride of lions and a herd of elephants tried to save it.

Having had no luck with their sightings, they were just about to leave the waterhole when a lioness stuck her head over the hill. The rest of her pride soon followed and made their way towards the waterhole. Hathway had a feeling that they were ready for action.

A few minutes later, a large black rhino came galloping over the same hill.

Hathway couldn’t believe her luck. At the time, the rhino didn’t seem to care about the nearby predators; it was too set on getting a drink, but the lions were aware of it.

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