Scott Smith travels to the Cradle to experience the ‘Worldwide Web of Life’
American freelance travel writer Scott Smith recently travelled to Johannesburg for a whirlwind tour which took him to the Origins Centre, Maropeng and the Cradle of Humankind.
Having spoken to iconic comic actor Bob Newhart about his own South African safari adventure back into “the Garden of Eden” some years prior, Smith was keen to hunt for the same transcendent experience and get in touch with his roots.
Below is an excerpt of his article, which appears on the Huffington Post website.
“The next day we were picked up by guide Chris Green of Cashan Tours for a day in the Cradle of Humankind, a World Heritage site an hour out of Joburg. It includes 300 caves, such as Sterkfontein, which has the world's longest archaeological excavation, producing a third of the early hominid fossils (human-like creatures, some of them our ancestors). Nearby, the first evidence was found of hominid control of fire as early as 1.8-million years ago …”