About the Cradle of Humankind

After you Walk the Talk through picturesque Magaliesberg grassland, you also have the opportunity to see fossils, learn about how humankind was born, view stone tools that are up to one million years old, and much more. The Maropeng Visitor Centre is an award-winning, world-class exhibition, focusing on the development of humans and our ancestors over the past few million years. You enter via a prehistoric mound - the Tumulus building - and after a boat ride that takes you through a journey of creation of life on the planet and mankind’s evolution, you exit into the 21st century!

Take a journey through time, starting with the formation of the planet and moving all the way through the evolutionary processes that culminated in the world as we know it today. The scenery in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site is the kind Instagram was made for but don’t forget to wear comfortable walking shoes!.