Our next stop in Namibia was Kolmanskop, a ghost town in the Namib Desert. And Namibia continues its streak of being really beautiful and really eerie.
A former diamond mining town, up till the mid 20th century there were hundreds who called Kolmanskop home. It was slowly abandoned after its diamond production declined. The last people left in 1954 and since then, the desert has started to take it back.
Sand fills houses knee-high, lovingly-painted stencils chip and fade ...
After roaming around with the ghosts we decided to go to the nearby seaside town of Lüderitz to eat some lunch ...
and goof off a bit:
We capped off the day by going to Dias Point. Well, one of the Dias Points. Dias as in Bartolomeu Dias. As as it happens, there are several Dias points throughout the Southern tip of Africa. As Mr. Dias went a-conquerin' he kept leaving these crosses. "Mine. In the name of Haysus." Ah colonization.
It's a beautiful, wind-scraped spot. And the original stone marker and cross are still there ...
But talk about ghosts. I think I heard a some howling in that wind.
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