This photo was taken in the abandoned ghosttown Kolmanskop in the Namibian desert. Kolmanskop was a diamond mining settelement founded in1908 when a German found diamonds in the desert. This town became rich very fast because diamonds were found in large numbers. It is said, that you could just sit on the sand and pick diamonds in the moonlight! In the early1950s people started to move away. New and larger diamond areas were found further south. The miners and their families followed. They left Kolmanskop to be swallowed by the dessert.
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Thank you so much! :)
wow, that photography is fantastic - oddly haunting and beautiful
Thanks :) I was there one morning where I was almost all alone... that really gave the whole place a ghostly atmosphere.