This is well worth a visit for anyone interested in human history, as it is renowned for its extraordinary contribution to our understanding of the origins of humankind.

Thousands of fossils have been found in many limestone caves that occur here, and continue to be excavated, the reason why it is a World Heritage Site.

Maropeng (in Setswana this means ‘returning to a place of origin’), the official visitor centre for the Cradle of Humankind, is located in a building designed to look like an early burial mound, blending harmoniously with its surroundings. Inside, visitors are transported on a short boat trip back in time to the start of the universe, before they enter an exhibition hall.

Advise your clients to also pay a visit to the Sterkfontein Caves, where Dr Robert Broom famously found an adult skull of an Australopithecus africanus, known as Mrs Ples, in 1947.

The Sterkfontein Caves now belong to the University of Witwatersrand, a world leader in palaeosciences, and there are regular guided tours here, including a combined tour of both Sterkfontein and Maropeng.