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Situated just 40Km north of Pretoria lies the Tswaing Asteroid Crater which is believed to have been created when an Asteroid collided with Earth about 200,000 years ago. All that is left of the collision is a crater surrounded by a ring of hill about 100m high and a kilometre across. These hills are believed to have been originally twice this height. Tswaing is the Tswana work for Salt Lake and refers to lake at the bottom of the crater.

The trail skirts the rim of the crater and then descends down to the lake. The reserve has a good variety of birdlife and the area has a large number of species of indigenous trees. The trail, about 7.5km long, is relatively easy and should not take more than 2-3 hours to complete. Well worth a visit...especially for those interested in rocks and strange occurrences.

I have posted the original shot in the workshop. Used picasa for B/W conversion, added some warmth to it and here it is.