The nights in Namibia are magical. The skies are dark and studded with stars. the milky way visible to the naked eye. The night sky seen the way it was meant to be seen. The Quiver tree basking in the glow of the night. (well a drone was used to light the tree, but lets ignore that fact for now).
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When you are quiet in the desert, you can hear the duet of the light and sand.
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There are many magical places in Namibia and Sossusvlei is one of them. The way the light paints that desert is unparalleled. We just need to wait for that right moment when the shadow hits the margin of the dune and the salt plain and watch the magic unfold.
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Really enjoyed spending time in Namibia exploring the desert and the Skeleton Coast. My first time in Africa..and I hope to be back next year.
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In 1904 the people of Nambia rebelled against the German colonizers, who retaliated with genocidal ferocity by killing over 60,000 of the Herero people.
In 1908 a Namibian railroad worker named Zacherias Lewala was shoveling railroad tracks clear of creeping sand dunes when he saw some stones shining in the low light. Lewala's German employer identified them for what they were: diamonds. Lewala was not paid or rewarded for his find.
Soon hordes of prospectors descended on the area. By 1912 a town had sprung up Kolmanskop producing a million carats of diamonds a year. Tribespeople displaced from their land by the zone's construction were often employed as laborers in diamond mines, forced to live on cramped, barracks-like compounds for months at a time.
But it wasn't to last. Intensive mining depleted the area by the 1930s and the town's fate was sealed when the richest diamond fields ever known were found on the beach terraces to the south. Once again greed drove the townspeople in droves, abandoning homes and possessions.
And why are the houses painted in these vivid colors you ask? It was to keep the German women happy far from their homeland in a place where the men folk worked in the mines all day and were hardly ever home. And if you are wondering why no one lives there anymore...cause its just bad karma :)
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