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Deutschland by the Sea
2008.09.06
A little piece of Germany in the desert...
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A little piece of Germany in the desert...
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The old military barracks is now a Youth Hostel...
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The old military barracks is now a Youth Hostel...
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It's like Bavaria meets Disney... quite strange.
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It's like Bavaria meets Disney... quite strange.
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But a great place from which to visit the desert...
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But a great place from which to visit the desert...
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Apologies for the poor quality... taken out of the window of an aircraft...
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Apologies for the poor quality... taken out of the window of an aircraft...
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Endless miles of... well, nothing!
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Endless miles of... well, nothing!
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And the reminders of tragedies scattered along the coast....
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And the reminders of tragedies scattered along the coast....
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Where sand "cliffs" make the desert impenetrable...
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Where sand "cliffs" make the desert impenetrable...
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Where only seals make their home.
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Where only seals make their home.
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Swakopmund in Namibia is one of the strangest towns I have ever visited. It was founded in the 1890s as part of the short-lived colony of German South-West Africa as it was then known which was ceded to South Africa in 1915.
But it's as though the place is in a time capsule..... it's like time stopped in 1915... everything is still German. German street names, German banks and shops, German newspapers. I had a piece of Black Forest gateau in a konditorei on Kaiser Wilhelm Strasse! All very odd.
There is this small German community stuck on the edge of the African continent overlooking the Atlantic ocean, 9000km away from Germany. Most peculiar.
However, it's a great place from which to see the Skeleton Coast and three of us hired a light aircraft for a flight over the desert and along the coast. A mournful but majestic sight.
How strange and fascinating, David. Your writing elucidates these otherwise bizarre photos to create another story. The waves don't erode the sand cliffs making it accessible?
it's not so strange. probably you never heard about the idea to move lithuania into africa:) I guess Swakopmund is utopia - just it came true.
and those pictures taken from above... this is how I imagine africa.
