Doris, Jan (our driver) and I visited Maropeng to see "the Cradle of Human Kind" and the Sterkfontein caves. These are two of South Africa's jewels and they are really something to see.
One of the oldest of humanities relatives was found in the Sterkfontein Caves in 1997. Little Foot, as the discovery has been called, is an Australopithecus. It's skeleton is nearly 95% complete. The Cradle of Human Kind is a museum of human history stretching back to the begining of the planet. It all starts with a boat ride...
The map is really confusing. It's turned on it's side right now. You enter on the far right (bottom) and go left (up). The map makes the museum look like a Plenko machine.
Well at least the museum does. We got on this floating raft and journied through the first billion years of earths history. It took us through several periods. Here's us in a deep freeze period the walls are covered in ice!
After the boat ride you enter the main exhibit. I took a video of some highlights:
They also have a room for dinosaurs
Upon leaving the exhibit we headed over to the cave where Little Foot's remains where found. Before getting into the car we climbed to the top of the exhibit hall and took in an awesome view.
Cave entrance
Most of the pics from in the cave came out blurry. I got two good ones:
that's a bat
We left the cave and checked out the caves accompanying exhibit.
This guy looks kinda like my dad.
What is Doris doing?
With that we headed home.
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