The beautiful but desolate country that's becoming an unlikely dark tourism hotspot

The ghost town of Kolmanskop in Namibia. (Image: Getty) From its otherworldly landscapes to abundance of fascinating wildlife, Namibia is fast gaining a reputation as a place to truly escape life’s hustle and bustle. But another part of its appeal for some is for its opportunities for so-called dark tourism.

This is because the country , on the west coast of Africa, has a number of eerie ghost towns with and remnants of a bygone German colonial era with a truly sinister history. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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Log('[Load] OVP tcfLoaded',new Date())})}},1500)}) Peter Hohenhaus runs the website www.dark-tourism.com and explained that he finally made the trip to the country in 2022, scoping out some of these abandoned villages and towns - and to see first hand once smart buildings now slowly being eaten up entirely by sand.

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