The Cradle of Humankind, declared a World Heritage Site in 1999, offers a vast treasure of fossilized humanoid and animal remains dating back as much as 3.5. million years. Tour dolomite caves with expert paleontologists. View excavation sites. And learn more about human and cultural evolution at the state of the art interpretive center located at the entrance to the Sterkfontein Caves.

Discovered by an Italian gold prospector in 1896, the Sterkfontein Caves are one of the most important palaeoanthropological sites in the world. Made famous for two discoveries, Mrs Ples in 1947 and Little Foot in 1997, humanoid and animal fossils as well as stone tools have and are still being excavated here.

The Wonder Cave, believed to be 2.2 million years old, boasts an enormous chamber with impressive stalactite formations up to 15 meters high. A tour of this cave reveals rimstone pools, cave pearls and calcite formations. Help your children identify the formations by their unique names, Madonna, Popcorn, Straw and Mushroom.