South Africa & Lesotho - Good Moments

Good moments in Africa and Lesotho representing much that Southern Africa has to offer: (pre)history, nature, culture and country life.

Alma is a small town situated south of Vaalwater in the Limpopo province of South Africa. The area is surrounded by green-gray bushveld vegetation and a few private game reserves are located in the malaria free area.

Marakele National Park is part of the Waterberg Biosphere in Limpopo Province, South Africa. Marakele is home to the big five as well as sixteen species of antelopes and over 250 species of birds.

The UNESCO listed Cradle of Humankind, about 50 km northwest of Johannesburg, contains a complex of limestone caves. The Sterkfontein Caves were the site of the discovery of a 2.3-million-year-old fossil Australopithecus africanus. Nearby, the Rising Star Cave system contains the Dinaledi Chamber in which fifteen fossil skeletons of an extinct species of hominin were discovered. However, ccording to existing archaeological and fossil evidence, the genuine Cradle of Humankind is the Afar Triangle in East Africa.

The Pilanesberg Game Reserve, located north of Rustenburg, has a rich array of southern African wildlife including the Big Five. Most of the animal species of southern Africa live in the Pilanesberg Game Reserve today, including lions, elephants, black rhinos, white rhinos, Cape buffaloes, leopards, cheetahs, Hartmann's mountain zebras, giraffes, hippos, crocodiles and the Cape wild dog. Over 360 bird species were counted. The Pilanesberg is not in a location which the Big Five animals would naturally inhabit, however they have been brought into the 550 square kilometers of African bushland.

Hartbeespoort, the collective name of a few smaller towns situated around the Hartbeespoort Dam, is popular with visitors from the nearby Gauteng Province.

Krugersdorp is a mining city in the West Rand.

The bronze sculpture of former President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela can be found on the Union Buildings grounds in Pretoria.

Potchefstroom is an academic city in the North West Province of South Africa.

Mtubatuba is a town north of Richards Bay close to the entrance of the iSimangaliso Wetland Park in KwaZulu-Natal.

The dinosaur footprints at Subeng are embedded in a sandstone slab in a small stream and rank among the most important sites of its type in Lesotho. Discovered in 1955, Subeng incorporates the footprints of at least three and possibly as many as six different species of dinosaur, some with five toes on their feet, and others with three.

Chapters:
00:09 Countryside near Alma (Limpopo)
00:31 Marakele National Park
01:42 Maropeng - Cradle of Humankind
04:17 Pilanesberg Game Reserve
04:39 Hartbeespoort
04:57 Krugersdorp
05:14 Pretoria
05:41 Potchefstroom
05:51 Countryside towards Kimberley
06:07 Countryside near Durban
06:20 Countryside on the way to Baviaanskloof
06:53 Mtubatuba (KwaZulu-Natal)
07:15 Coast near Mount Pleasant
08:14 Lesotho - Subeng River Dinosaur Footprints

We visited South Africa on our overland trip by car (a Toyota LandCruiser 4WD campervan) from the Netherlands to South Africa and South America; see our channel https://www.youtube.com/user/JanvanBekkum for hundreds of clips. More clips of South Africa can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playli....st?list=PLMYlw_C7EP8

A video of fossils found in the genuine Cradle of Humankind in Ethiopia is here: https://youtu.be/Yj0B4nibTqU..

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