Christopher Burke and William Smith write about their experience:
As we climbed aboard the tour buses with sleep and the rising sun in our eyes, we were all hoping that a geography camp was going to be a laid-back affair.
However, nobody told the teachers in charge of our tour of our hopes, which, within no time at all, had us arguing over the varying land uses in Magaliesberg and rattling our brains as to how to apply theoretical class work to the real world.
The trip to Maropeng made our geography books from over the years come to life.
Driving through the gates of Maropeng somehow managed to silence the 60-odd boys in the buses for a reason none of us could quite fathom at the time. This would soon be revealed to us when… [we experienced an] overwhelming sense of awe that only a place so rich in mankind’s history could produce.
Courtesy of a wonderfully interactive and well thought through presentation by the Maropeng crew, we were soon transported back to a time when much smaller humanoids roamed the areas and set the standard for technological advances that would soon inspire generations following them to later build skyscrapers and communicate over Facebook.
We were sent time travelling backwards in a tunnel documenting the evolution of earth’s inhabitants over its long history which had us gaping at fossils of creatures completely alien to any of us.
