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Kolmanskop, Ghost Town

In the Namibian desert survives the trace of a strange time, where the man was determined to raise ballrooms on the dunes, barracks in the sand, mansions in the middle of nowhere, but ended up winning, and today nothing Kolmanskop only wind and gloom.

byDaniel Landa

3 June, 2013

Namibia: Kolmanns- coup, the ghost town of diamonds

City, in the desert, is now a ghostly landscape. The once luxurious homes look like dunes go through doors and windows. The richness of the period in which flourished diamonds has given way to oblivion. There was installed the first x-ray machine in Africa, there was a casino, had air conditioning ...

byJavier Brandoli

21 December, 2010

The Aserejé and sandstorm

Africa, sometimes, I despair. It gives and takes away at will. The timetables are fiction and commitments made with smiles that are not always met. These things travel, luckily, are usually arranged. ¿Point?

byJavier Brandoli

13 August, 2010

The game of billiards and the Great Fish River Canyon

It was not easy to leave South Africa, Police were playing ball, border risks, and wanted me to pay a fine because I had expired visa. "Call your boss, 'I said, but that makes it clear that I have permission to 15 de septiembre ". The guy must have thought I was going to put heavy and it was easier estamparme the seal and I lost in the desert of Namibia. We leave.

byJavier Brandoli

9 August, 2010

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