Ghost Town in the middle of the desert

Once upon a time was home to hundreds of German miners, who sought fortune in the wilderness of Namibia. But, almost 100 years after it reached its peak of prosperity and development, Kolmanskopi is turning into a ghost town today that every day is swallowed up by the sand.
 Photographers and curious tourists gather to watch the former German homes while diving a little bit in the desert.
 The town was built and was abandoned within 40 years, reported Start, and for decades was forgotten in the middle of the desert.The once stately homes over time were destroyed by the wind and the sand slowly fill them with sand.In 1980, the company "De Beers" built a museum to preserve a part of history of Kolmanskopit. Now tourists come to see the reconstructed buildings of walking between houses abandoned.Kolmanskopi was founded in the early 1900s, when diamonds were discovered on the surface of the desert. It was built as a hospital, dance hall, power station, school, games room, theater, sports hall and an ice factory. Also, in this town arose first X-ray centers in the Southern Hemisphere and the first tram on the African continent.By the '20s, in Kolmanskop lived 300 German adults, 40 children and 800 contract workers from the local tribe Owambo.
 Beginning of the fall of the "small paradise" was after the First World War, when the price of diamonds began to decline, and further south the most precious diamonds were discovered. The town was finally abandoned in 1954.
 Ghost Town is used in many movies and television series South African and was sheshxhirimi the movie "The King is alive" in 2000.