Visitors to Roodepoort can go on walks and trails through the Kloofendal Nature Reserve, or enjoy a picnic or a show at the popular Kloofendal Amphitheatre. The Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden boasts a 70-m-high waterfall and a breeding pair of black eagles. Forty kilometres north of Pretoria lies a ring of hills a kilometre in diameter and 100 m high. These are the walls of an impact crater left by an asteroid that hit the area some 200 000
years ago.
The Tswaing Meteorite Crater is similar in size to the well-known Barringer Meteor Cra- ter in Arizona, in the USA. The crater walls at Tswaing were originally about twice as high as they are today.
There is a museum adjacent to the crater. A path leads from the museum to the crater, along the rim, and down to the central lake. The crater is covered with indigenous trees and bushes, which attract a variety of bird life. The old mining town of Cullinan developed around the Premier Diamond Mine. Many turn- of-the-century houses still stand. The mine has produced some of the world’s most famous diamonds, including the Cullinan Diamond, the
world’s largest at 3 106 carats.