by 2summers | Mar 20, 2024 | Joburg Weekend Getaways, Johannesburg, Johannesburg Day Trips, Parks/Nature Reserves, Tours
I recently learned a bonkers statistic: Around 40% of all of the hominid fossils ever discovered were unearthed in the Cradle of Humankind. In other words, close to half of all the known fossils from our human ancestors — in the entire world — came out of...
by 2summers | Jan 22, 2019 | Arts and Culture, Johannesburg Day Trips, Museums and Buildings
UPDATE: The Long March to Freedom Art Walk is fully booked. Hopefully we can organize another one soon. Last January I visited the Long March to Freedom National Heritage Monument in Fountains Valley, Pretoria. I was enchanted by this glorious phalanx of 100 bronze...
by 2summers | May 29, 2011 | Johannesburg, Johannesburg Day Trips, Parks/Nature Reserves
Johannesburg is a new city by human standards, having been founded 125 years ago in 1886. But just a short drive from Joburg lie the remains of some of the oldest human descendants on earth. The Cradle of Humankind, 20 kilometers from town, is a 47,000-hectare World...
by 2summers | Apr 14, 2011 | Arts and Culture, Johannesburg Day Trips, Parks/Nature Reserves
Joe and I drove along a bucolic country road in the Cradle of Humankind, a World Heritage Site 45 minutes outside Joburg. It was a sunny afternoon. We weren’t exactly sure where we were going. We’d heard there was a large sculpture park out this way and we...