Tuesday, January 22, 2013

How a town drowns in the desert

While many are digging out from under snow this season, there's one town that could use a sand plow: Kolmanskop. During the diamond-rush days in the early 1900s, the town in the Namibian desert was the place to be. But by 1954, when the diamonds dried up, the town was abandoned and the tumbleweeds rolled in with the sand--lots and lots of sand. The desert's relentless, unchecked reclamation of Kolmanskop has made the gritty ghost town popular with tourists and movie location scouts, who..

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