MOSSEL BAY NEWS - A group of tour guides from Cape Town enjoyed a Cradle of Humankind tour in Mossel Bay on Tuesday, 23 March.

Scientists found small stones in Mossel Bay caves which they believe were fashioned by and used as tools by "early man" hundreds of thousands of years ago. The tour explains these and other archeological findings in the caves.

Felicity Poggenpoel of the Cape Tourist Guides' Association told the Mossel Bay Advertier: "It is the first time these tour guides were taken on this route. It's educational."

She said the Cradle of Humankind tour would be promoted overseas.

The tour guides from Cape Town would be meeting up with Mossel Bay tour guides.

Poggenpoel said: "We are having a chapter meeting. We want to establish the first chapter for tour guides on the Garden Route."

She said it was felt that "tour guides have been left out in the cold" until now. This needed to be addressed, she said, adding that the Cape Tourist Guides' Association would be the link between tour guides and government, representing them to government.

Poggenpoel said the association was based in Cape Town mainly, but the plan was to extend it to the rest of the Western Cape. The tourist guides' association is working in partnership with the Western Cape Tourism, Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Wesgro).

Chairman of the tourist guides' association, Jeremy Howard, came to Mossel Bay with the tour guides for the educational tour, which started at the St Blaize Cave at the Point in Mossel Bay.

All Covid-19 protocols were adhered to on the tour.

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