The ghost town
Swallowed by the desert: Eerie pictures from the ghost town that was abandoned to the sand 50 years ago
Kolmanskop was founded in the early 1900s when diamonds were found in the desert but abandoned 40 years later. It was once the home to hundreds of German miners desperately seeking their fortune in the Namibian desert.
But almost 100 years after Kolmanskop peaked as a thriving and bustling oasis, it is now a dilapidated ghost town slowly being reclaimed by the sand. Tourists and photographers now flock to the area to see the formally grand German houses gradually sink into desert.
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