Kolmanskop, a ghost town buried in the sand PICTURES AND VIDEO


	Kolmanskop, a ghost town buried in the sand PICTURES AND VIDEO

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9bf640fa-6db8-4023-8eb4-700e6eb49095/D53A055E-8FF4-4636-BCDF-D88FA89E65C7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://fogonazos.blogspot.com/2008/01/kolmanskop-ghost-town-buried-in-sand.html" href="http://fogonazos.blogspot.com/2008/01/kolmanskop-ghost-town-buried-in-sand.html" style="font-size: 11px;">fogonazos.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://fogonazos.blogspot.com/2008/01/kolmanskop-ghost-town-buried-in-sand.html">Kolmanskop is a ghost town in southern Namibia, a few kilometres inland from the port of Lüderitz.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://fogonazos.blogspot.com/2008/01/kolmanskop-ghost-town-buried-in-sand.html"><DIV>But shortly after the drop in diamond sales after the First World War, the beginning of the end started. During the 1950's the town was deserted and the dunes began to reclaim what was always theirs.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://fogonazos.blogspot.com/2008/01/kolmanskop-ghost-town-buried-in-sand.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/fogonazos.blogspot.com/img/883B4D69-0F0C-4E7A-9D91-3CEF0AC91BC3" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://fogonazos.blogspot.com/2008/01/kolmanskop-ghost-town-buried-in-sand.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/fogonazos.blogspot.com/img/B7CF2907-B53A-49E3-843A-5762931D43AC" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://fogonazos.blogspot.com/2008/01/kolmanskop-ghost-town-buried-in-sand.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/fogonazos.blogspot.com/img/8EC1ECBF-9BA9-4D8E-B614-67BF22A8CE6A" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://fogonazos.blogspot.com/2008/01/kolmanskop-ghost-town-buried-in-sand.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/fogonazos.blogspot.com/img/32F2334C-B1C8-4AAC-8E21-E3084F939F6F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://fogonazos.blogspot.com/2008/01/kolmanskop-ghost-town-buried-in-sand.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/fogonazos.blogspot.com/img/0BB00FC6-8152-46CD-B5B7-325D7FD03466" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://fogonazos.blogspot.com/2008/01/kolmanskop-ghost-town-buried-in-sand.html"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QaHkhmjeAtM&rel=1" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://fogonazos.blogspot.com/2008/01/kolmanskop-ghost-town-buried-in-sand.html"><DIV>Soon the metal screens collapsed and the pretty gardens and tidy streets were buried under the sand. Doors and windows creaked on their hinges, cracked window panes stared sightlessly across the desert. A new ghost town had been born. <A href="http://www.encounter.co.za/article/87.html" linkindex="5">[1]</A></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D53A055E-8FF4-4636-BCDF-D88FA89E65C7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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