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Cradle of Humankind

Posted by RaiSmith | 1st November 2009

Set off from Waterval Boven, where we'd stayed the previous night, for our last couple of days in South Africa. Headed to an area called the Cradle of Humankind - a world heritage site famous for its archeological finds, cave systems and several nature reserves. We stopped in Pretoria on the way for local maps and took some phots of their gorgeous avenues of jacoranda trees which line the streets. These trees are a beautiful bright purple, which is actually the flowers - the green leaves only appear afer the flowers have dropped. We then went on to Maropeng for the afternoon, where we went round a great natural history exhibition, starting with a boat ride through the ice ages and looking at how the earth has developed, animals have evolved and where humans originated. There was some emphasis on the humanoid fossils as some of the earliest examples have been found in this area of Africa.

Our next stop was to find a bed for the night. We went on a hunt to find a place that look

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