It takes you only 45 minutes to drive out to the country-side where our ancestors roamed millions of years ago. Check out your long distant cousins Mrs Ples and Little Foot - dated at around 3 million years old. Visit the shimmering underground lake, 40m down into the Sterkfontein caves. The lake is believed to hold mystical properties and is believed by the locals to cure a myriad of diseases.The Cradle of Humankind, the worlds richest Hominid site, is suprisingly close to the tall skyscrapers of Johannesburg city.