Travel & Adventure – Offroad
Off-road safari in Namibia’s diamond restricted area
Collecting diamonds in the ‚restricted area‘.
»If an idea doesn’t sound absurd at the beginning, it’s no good.« (Albert Einstein)
This trip to the diamond restricted area was planned especially for Africans and Africanized people. In fact, normal people would not be able to enjoy such an event. We drank schnapps and ate a lot of meat from the open fire. After 13 years in Namibia as an Africanized Djerry, I received an invitation and friends of the organizer – South Africans, Rhodesians, Mozambicans and Namibians – joined the party.
Since it is not easy to get a permit for the restricted area, I accepted my friend’s invitation. As the icing on the cake, we drove in a red Hummer. The only car in the world that nobody needs.
After sand, heat, scorpions and 100 meter high dunes, over which we flew in the red sweeper, we reached the former enclaves of German colonial rule.
A hundred years ago, slave-like conditions prevailed here under inhumane conditions. We were the first to see the endless cemeteries of the ‚perished‘ after Namibia’s independence. The remains of the shacks in which they had lived in order to snatch the diamonds from the sand had been left to the desert.
There were many pale bones sticking out of the gray mist, exposed by the wind.
Merciless sun, freezing fog, horrendous living conditions, many dead, blood diamonds: the diamonds of the Skeleton Coast for the fingers of beautiful women …
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Sound of the desert
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Sound of the South Atlantic
Skeleton Coast: The so-called Skeleton Coast is a section of Namibia’s coastline up to 40 km wide and 500 km long.
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