Overnight fortunes brought all mod cons, with the luxuries at Kolmanskop quickly rivalling those of any European town.
BBC: The ghostly shore of Namibia��s Skeleton Coast
Nearly 500km south is the diamond mining town of Kolmanskop, which was abandoned in 1956 and is slowly being reclaimed by the sands.
BBC: A long road trip along Namibia��s coast
Abandoned in the early 1950s, Kolmanskop is today a ghost town.
Known as Kolmanskop, it sprouted as a prim German town in the Namib a century ago, when the country was a German colony known as German South West Africa.
But Kolmanskop is not the only ghost of the Namib.
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