Kolmanskop
Kolmanskop, a few kilometers inland from the port town of Lüderitz is an abandoned town in the Namib Desert. In 1908, when a diamond was found here, lots of German settled in this area. With the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built Kolmanskop in the architectural style of a German town.
With amenities and institutions including a hospital, school, ballroom, casino as well as the first tram in whole Africa. As the diamond-field slowly exhausted, the town declined. In 1954, it was ultimately abandoned. The desert’s forces mean that tourists now walk through houses knee-deep in sand.
