Animal Kingdom Going back centuries, when the first European entered the Southern Africa, there was no place where one couldn’t spot any of the "Big Five" there were there down to the southern point of Africa, the Cape; these are: Lions Buffalos Leopards Rhinos Elephants Today one finds them in National Parks and in private Game Reserves. Visitors to Cape Town, e.g., have to travel not more than one hour to witness such game. There are Game Reserves off the track along the Garden Route and West Coast. Of cause, nature provides the traveller with many, many more species of game and birds, a real paradise of unspoiled nature.