3,600 Miles of Africa
Photography
I took these photographs during a three-week road trip in Namibia and Botswana. Namibia’s has a diverse landscape, including the Skeleton Coast, Etosha Pan and the Kalahari Desert. You can also see the German influence. Kolmanskop, which was a rich diamond mining village settled by German miners, is now a ghost town in the Namib desert.
Camel thorn trees in Deadvlei. Scorched black by the sun and dead, the trees do not decompose because the climate is too dry.
A giraffe.
The dock of an oyster factory in Lüderitz.
The old Garub train station.
Inside an abandoned house in Kolmanskop. It was a rich diamond town and after the depletion of the mine it was abandoned in 1954.
Ntwetwe Pan in Botswana.
Wlotzkasbaken, Namibia.
A tree on the edge of Etosha Pan, Namibia.
A giraffe.
A lilac-breasted roller.
An abandoned building in Kolmanskop, which is a ghost town in the Namib desert.
Camel thorn trees in Deadvlei. Scorched black by the sun and dead, the trees do not decompose because the climate is too dry.
Elephants at a watering hole near Nxai Pan, Botswana.
In Kolmanskop an abandoned house is filled with rolling sand dunes.
Sand dunes in an abandoned building in Kolmanskop.
A dune in the Namib desert.
Trees in a sandstorm near Sesriem, Namibia.
The rusty remains of an oil rig on the Skeleton Coast. It never reached oil and was finally abandoned in 1972.
A welcome and craft center at the Springbok Water Gate, Skeleton Coast.