1.卡曼斯科(納米比亞)——沙漠吞噬的城市
KOLMANSKOP (Namibia): Buried in sand
Kolmanskop is a ghost town in southern Namibia, a few kilometres inland from the port of Lüderitz. In 1908, Luederitz was plunged into diamond fever and people rushed into the Namib desert hoping to make an easy fortune. Within two years, a town, complete with a casino, school, hospital and exclusive residential buildings, was established in the barren sandy desert. But shortly after the drop in diamond sales after the First World War, the beginning of the end started. During the 1950's the town was deserted and the dunes began to reclaim what was always theirs.
卡曼斯科(Kolmanskop)是一座位于納米比亞南部，離呂德里茨港很近，現(xiàn)今已被沙漠吞噬的城市。早在1908年，呂德里茨興起了一股鉆石熱潮，一大批抱有鉆石夢(mèng)的年輕人聚集到納米比亞的沙漠中。隨之而來的，就是這座卡曼斯科的小鎮(zhèn)，人們修建了學(xué)校，醫(yī)院，娛樂場所以及大片的住宅區(qū)。
Soon the metal screens collapsed and the pretty gardens and tidy streets were buried under the sand. Doors and windows creaked on their hinges, cracked window panes stared sightlessly across the desert. A new ghost town had been born.
可好景不長，隨著世界戰(zhàn)后鉆石價(jià)格的大幅跌落，這座曾今繁華一時(shí)的城鎮(zhèn)漸漸落寞，最終在20世紀(jì)五十年代被徹底廢棄，淹沒在一片沙丘之中。
A couple of old buildings are still standing and some interiors like the theatre is still in very good condition, but the rest are crumbling ruins demolished from grandeur to ghost houses.
一對(duì)舊樓仍然矗立在那里，一些劇院里的內(nèi)飾看上去仍然不錯(cuò)，但其余的都是搖搖欲墜的廢墟，從宏偉的建筑變成了現(xiàn)在的鬼屋。
