2 legends, 2 caves on the free Club 49 adventure map
What the map holds here
Sterkfontein, the Cradle of HumankindCave The most important cave for human origins on Earth. In the dolomite caverns at Sterkfontein, northwest of Johannesburg in South Africa, decades of digging have pulled our own deep ancestors out of the rock, “Mrs Ples” and the... Open it on the map
The Cango CavesCave One of the great show caves of the world, in the Swartberg mountains of South Africa, a series of vast chambers of dripstone hung with immense stalagmite columns, some the size of buildings, in Precambrian limestone. Shown to... Open it on the map
The TokolosheLegend Across southern Africa, in Zulu and Xhosa belief, the tokoloshe is a small, hairy, malevolent water-sprite conjured or sent to do harm, to frighten, sicken or kill in the night. The reason so many old beds in the region stand on... Open it on the map · Read the story
The Vredefort DomeLegend Two billion and twenty-three million years ago, give or take four million, something struck here and left a crater 170 to 300 kilometres across, bigger than Chicxulub. It is the largest verified impact structure on Earth. You... Open it on the map · Read the story
Every one of these is sourced
Each entry links to the record it came from. Access rules, permits and land status vary by country and are noted where the source states them, check locally before you go.
