The discovery of a 20 000 year-old fossilized fish skeleton in a southern Cape cave shook up the world of paleontology. Professors attached to universities in Norway and Arizona leading digs along the craggy stretch of coastline dubbed the Cradle of Human Culture suggested that perhaps it was the consumption of fish – a mussel-cracker, still popular on South African seafood menus – with those Omega 3 oils that had pulled us over the evolutionary edge into the culturally modern humans we are today.

Discoveries in ongoing digs, from east of Plettenberg Bay towards Hermanus on South Africa’s southern Cape coast, led by a team of multinational palaeontologists and archaeologists, support this theory. Which isn’t such a stretch when considering that modern Homo sapiens evolved in the Highveld hills outside Johannesburg, globally known as the Cradle of Humankind.

Ever since first hearing about the discovery of the fossilised mussel-cracker Angus has wanted to link the two cradles together in a single safari itinerary. Three itineraries of different lengths have been prepared, to allow for different levels of interes. Each features an impressive variety of accommodation and cuisine, incorporating visits to wine farms (and one of the country’s finest game reserves featured in the longer itineraries). 

Or better still, ask us to design one for you.