[Namibia 2017] The Abandoned City of Kolmanskop in Namibia #2

It took fewer than twenty years for the diamond deposits of Kolmanskop to be depleted. By World War I, most the town’s diamonds were gone and a larger deposit was discovered nearthe Orange River. As quickly as they had arrived in Kolmanskop, the mining families moved south, leaving homes and possessions behind.

And then the desert began to reclaim Kolmanskop. Without a human presence to keep the desert at bay, the sand began to overtake the once grand homes, filling the parlors, dining rooms, and bedrooms where families once lived. Paint and wallpaper were worn away by sand and by time.

To walk among the empty town today is to be reminded that we humans are small, powerless creatures. We build our homes, we live our lives and do what we will. But ultimately, time and nature will have their way with these things, leaving scant traces of our small existence.

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