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FOTO: GRAD DUHOVA U SRCU PUSTINJE Progutao ga pijesak: Svi su tu dolazili u potrazi za bogatstvom, a onda su prije 60-ak godina svi otišli...

 
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Život je nekada bujao u Kolmanskopu, gradić u udaljenom dijelu Namibije bio je dom za više od 1000 ljudi.

Brojni su putnici namjernici, uglavnom iz Njemačke, dolazili ovamo u nadi da će pronaći bogatstvo.

Sada leži na pušten i prepušten milostima prirode, kao sablasni podsjetnik na prošlost. No, nije uvijek bilo tako.

Povijest Kolmanskopa počinje s jednim čovjekom, Zachariasom Lewalom.

- (PICTURED inside the sand houses PIC TAKEN 23/05/17 ) These stunning photographs show an abandoned diamond mine being taken over by an abundance of sand. The photographs show several rooms and even a bath tub being flooded by sand - making the history completely unrecognisable.This collection of pictures was taken by David Swindler along the B4 corridor between Luderitz and Aus in Namibia. David, 38, said: Some German immigrants first started coming to this area in the late 1800s and worked on constructing a rail line into the interior of the country., Image: 353240212, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: PIC BY David Swindler / CATERS NEWS, Model Release: no, Credit line: Profimedia, Caters News
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House of a former diamond miners settlement that is slowly covered by the sand of the Namib Desert, Kolmanskop, ?Karas, Namibia, Image: 190664485, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Profimedia, imageBROKER
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Kolmanskop the abandoned ghost town in the Namib Desert which began in 1908 to mine the diamonds discovered in the area Also Kolmannskuppe Kolmanskuppe Namibia, Image: 11961539, License: Royalty-free, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Profimedia, Alamy
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Davne 1908. godine radnik na željeznici uklanjao je pijesak sa pruge kada je naletio na kristalno sjajni predmet. Donio ga je svom šefu te otkrio da je zapravo riječ o dijamantu i tako je započela dija...

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