Duration Approximately 8 hours
Distance Approximately 240 km
Price R 800.00 per person includes lunch
Departure 08h00
Operates Daily

Join African Timeout in exploring this undiscovered wonder of nature
* Display to Tswaing's natural and cultural history
* Tswaing's indigenous African cattle, some of wich are of the Natal Nguni type descending from the white cattle belonging to the Zulu royal house
* One of the best birdwatching sites near Pretoria (320 bird species)
* The 7,2km Tswaing Crater Trail, South Africa's first and only walking trail in and around a meteorite impact crater
* 420 Floral species 

Tswaing is 2000 hectare site, some 40km north-north-west of Pretoria. The main feature of this site are a 220 000 year old meteorite impact crater, a marsh area, a variety of ecosystems, and the remains of a factory that produced soda-ash and salt.

In geological terms, the Tswaing Crater represents one of the youngest and best preserved small bowl-shaped meteorite impact crater in the world. The crater is known, both nationally and internationally, as the Pretoria Saltpan (or Zoutpan Crater). Tswaing, (meaning "place of salt" in the Tswana language) constitutes a sensitive and unique conservation area for the careful management of its multiple cultural and natural resource, in the disciplenes of geology, the environmental sciences, biology, and human history. Tswaing is currently being developed by th National Cultural History Museum. This museum places strong emphasis on the protection and use of the area's herutage for purposes if research, educaction, recreation and community empowerment. All this is done in close consultation with local people, scientists and conservation-oriented institutions.