Kolmanskop Ghost Town: Abandoned Mansions Filled With Sand
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2019
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Exploring an abandoned diamond mining town in Namibia! This was a thriving community, with very substantial buildings including an ice factory, a casino and a hospital -- but a better diamond field was discovered to the south, so the residents abandoned the town in the 1950s...and the desert has been swallowing the buildings ever since.
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The attention to detail in the architecture was amazing. That was no ordinary mining town.
.....What a WONDERFUL, mind-blowing experience.....!!
Definitely!😄
Note the black and wite Masonic floor tiles on the way in to the biggest house.jo matter were you go there's sings that that type of agenda lived there... only those that understand what I mean will get that! anyway awesome share..loads of creepy triangler shaped wall paper aswell....
You work hard to put out so much content and so much variety! We’ve gotten a lot of entertainment from them. I’ve put out a few videos and never realized what was involved before that. YT Critics should try to make just one before ever saying anything negative.
I so love who you are, your sense of adventure and humor...
Love you wonderhussy love your videos and your Ventures I feel like I'm right there with you
My Dad was in South Africa for 5 years during WW2 Thanks for a great video
What a fascinating history that location has. Thanks for taking us along!
Fascinating. Very dry climate. Will take longer for buildings to decay.
Now that was really cool. I used to live near an abandoned mental hospital in NJ, and the hallways looked just like that. I always try imagine people walking those halls.But that has to be the most remote spot for a hospital anywhere. Your adventures are so cool. Just finished Your Mt Whitney climb. Wow
By far the best explore video of this old mining town I’ve ever seen! Love you Wonderhussy! Keep it up!
abandoned house are my favorite since I was a kid. Mom & Great Aunt would take us for Sunday drives, inthe country where they were raised. What fun times. I even have my grandpa and Great Aunts old school books.What awesome find, and times.
One of your very best. Note to self: Close the doors and windows when in sandy areas!
at 16:00 over your right shoulder looked like Electricity Meters. Thanks for keeping the music low.
Glad you got your desert Fix there.........
I bet that place is amazing at night for dark sky and star viewing. You go everywhere!
I love watching your videos and find them interesting. Hello from Adelaide south Australia.
I'm fairly certain I'll never make it to Namibia ... But, I'm very happy you got to and you share with us. Can't ask for much more than that. Thanks WH. We love ya girl.
I have watched several videos on this place, but you see things no one else notices and your flicks are fantastic. Thank you so much. You have a marvelous creative awareness. 🎉 great job.
Hi Sarah. This is a great video. Have a great day my friend 👍
Excellent show!
Keep up the great work! I love watching your videos!
Great Video, Sarah Jane! That whole town is cool! The hospital is great !
Great video! It was just a great joy to just be able to see the video! You “Stay-safe” and keep-up the “Awesomeness” within you!🧧🤙🌺
Another awesome wonderhussy adventure...I love em her adventures and the way she is always cheer's me up 😄💙 thank you for sharing
awesome trip Sarah !!
So neat!! Thank you very much for sharing!
The large Minenverwalter building was for the ‘mine managers’ .. pretty fancy 😊
Very well done!
You always bring to the nice's places that one home was so gorgeous it just needed some needed TLC😍
Very cool , Wonder ...
Too purty for words 💜✌😇
That was fun. Thanks.
A reference to White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane? My most favorite Grace Slick song ever.
There is nothing better that walking through an abandon desert town with a beautiful gracious lady! That's why I support you as much as I can. Why do you have a coiled rope on your shoulder? It's not something you do in the US. I also didn't see human caused destruction in the town. That's amazing! Not as amazing as you but still amazing. I really enjoyed the video and also enjoyed your company as we traveled through. Figuratively speaking of course.. Thanks for the adventure Sarah.. Your the best!
Thanks for sharing WH. Those are the most photogenic abandoned
Buildings you have shown. Really neat visuals. Way to go your own way and get those shots without the cluttered look of a tour group.
True to form Wonderhussy never ceases to Amaze us 👍
Good video Sarah! Enjoy!
WOW AMAZING. Wish I was there. Would love to explore with you.
Love the vids keep em coming watching in the UK.
You are the coolest explorer ever.
What an amazing place to explore Sarah. You made me laugh out loud with the stripper pole comment out on that balcony. Seems to me that was a missed photo shoot that could have been quite amazing 😉.
Its very impressive how these buildings are still standing, that hospital hallway is eerie!
Awesome video!
I get a real Andrew Wyeth vibe from your surroundings. Pose yourself like Christina in the foreground with one of those beautiful buildings in the background would be an awesome shot!
All right another great video! Thanks for your views, of something I’ll neve see.
Another great video this ghost town is so cool.
Amazing video. I knew that you did more on that African video. Love you Wonder Hussy. You are educational Awesome. 🤗😘😍
Thank you Sarah,,Very cool
You make the best vids :D love them!!
Love your modeling pictures, mmhmm
Love You WonderHottie
Another great vid
Awesome girl! You get around! 😊💕✌
good job enjoyed
Sarah Jane the reason for a furnace in an old icehouse, is to heat ammonia in an enclosed piping system it will freeze water easily. When you heat ammonia it gets very cold. Most rv's still use ammonia in the refrigerator. Love your videos.
I will always and forever love ghost towns and haunted houses! I would jump at the chance to explore with The Hussy.
PEACE 👽💀🎸🎵🎶
Not a single 🌴 tree within 100 miles. It's.neat how the sand reclaims the property. The structures look pretty good for being 50 to 100 years old. Thanks for sharing.
WHAT AN AMAZING VIDEO MY LITTLE FRIEND. SO ENJOYED IT. HOPE YOU HAVE MORE VIDEOS ON YOUR VACATION. SWAMP HUGS FROM LOUISIANA
Cool 😀
Very interesting vid! Broadening your horizons, huh!
Great work Sarah, what a trip. But there was no pole dance at 20:36, an opportunity missed for the Hussy! Hah! Stay safe!
"Here's Hussy!!"" Classic!!!
Again this looks like a movie set, lolol nice thanks BigAl California.
Amazing place, bet you would like to go again, maybe see the mine and mining equipment, I would like to go look.
Wow nice video....little creepy but it was cool.. man✌😜
Ha! The wind driven sand must kick up something fierce to have scoured the mortar from between the bricks of the outhouse. great vid. Thanks, Huss!
1:28 , that house is used for the exterior shot of Lochear Field Ranch in Exmortis 2!
Hello Ted from Texas here. I'll say one excellent thing about those ghost towns. They're clean. As supposed to ghost towns of the u.s. . .. I know we have ghost towns that are similar to that but not with that many buildings. I think the weather is just too hard in some places for them. You did an excellent job in videotaping and sharing your experience with us, your fans. See you in the next video. Which I see that you've already downloaded onto CZcams. I will check it out tonight. Thanks again from Texas.
“Gly”: New Subscriber!! Very cool! Sure is nice to explore an abandoned place without all the modern trash and spray paint. That would be my Disneyland too!
Sarah Thank you . Please Stay safe !
Nice vid wh
Nice job kid
Water must have been like gold they're Great video Thanks
I suppose the missing floor boards were stolen to use for other projects...like we use old barn lumber here. that weird thing about 11:40 - 11:50 was probably part of the
water heater for that bath tub. I remember your Cantil (don't remember how it's spelled though) video...sand and tumble weeds. Stripper pole(8-). Well, you've heard the
term "Boom Town" in the US...with all those sand filled building you're poking through...that must be a "Dune Town". Honey...I was hoping I wouldn't have to tell you this,
but the ice house was the reason the town was abandoned...it wasn't diamond prices. Things were going so well until they had to shut the ice plant down...all because
Franz lots the recipe.(8-( Just kiddin'(8-) Supercharged excellent video, Lovely Lass(8-).
Sadly,most missing floor boards was cut out by a international film company that was given permission to shoot a movie there. That was before Kolmanskuppe was turned into a tourist attraction and better control was applied.
Very cool video I wish I could be there 😀👍🤗🤔🤩😏🙄
The ice plant was most likely used ammonia. Very poplar and dangerous. It was outlawed in the us in residential buildings because an ammonia leak could kill the occupants. It’s still used for industrial applications today.
Correct. Was a ammonia plant.
@@desertchild3550 True. And the part she showed was a tank holding brine cooled by the ammonia, in which those vertical molds were hanging containing fresh water to be frozen to ice bars.
That's
Way out there@!!!
Nice
I cannot believe you went to Kolmanskop! Unbelievable!
Bet theres a cemetery some where under all that sand
Sweet, 🐢♥️
I chuckled at your "Jack Nippleson" moment. The state of preservation is wonderful. I'll bet you were a'throb when you heard about it. I lived in Germany for several years and this decor is very typical. The women were certainly responsible for any flourishes. Great video. Thanks.
Thank you to the Friend that took you on a Great Urban Exploration...That"s Vegas in a Hundred Years... It would make a Good Nude Photo Shoot in some of those Places...Really Interesting Place...
Very nice again Wonderhussy abandoned diamond town in Namibia mostley German people👌✌😎
If you like abandoned hospitals you should come to Gooding, Idaho. We have the TB hospital and then there's the haunted mansions of Albion. They turn it into an attraction in October for Halloween but it was a medical campus and all the buildings have interesting stuff.
How fun that you're a World explorer now.
It was called Kolmanskop, or Kolman’s Knoll, after a worker who had abandoned his ox cart there during a sandstorm years before the town’s founding.
As Artie Johnson use to say on Laugh In “Very Interesting”😂
Eine ausgezeichnete Tour durch die alter Deutscher stadt. Das alte Krankenhaus hat mir am besten gefallen. Alles liebe.
NICE
Gawd, incredible stuff - who'd a thunk. Village that nice in the Mid O No Where. Africa. Ballsy WH.
Another point I will make. In Nevada old wood lasts a long time. Because it loses almost all moister content, so it cannot rot. It just gets harder that concrete. I have about 30 old 2x4's that are 20 years old at my house here in southern Nevada. You could not drive a nail in one to save your life. Even nail guns poop out. Gotta love the desert air for preserving things. When I die I want my body hung out to dry. I figure that is the closest I will get to eternity!
the serenity can become a decopaughge haven
Minenverwalter is mine manager. These houses were mainly from managers, supervisors and the like. And you know the germans. Built to last! Deutsche Gründlichkeit 😉
Yup, seriously cool. But you were talking about lack of bullet holes.
Here in France there is a ghost town called Oradour. A German SS battalion was
in the south of france when D-Day happened. Ont the way back up north to fight the Allies
they were harrassed by the Resistance. In reprisal they went into Oradour and pretty much
shot whoever they could find. Except for the people hiding in the church. They just set
fire to the church. So the whole place is peppered with bullet holes and ruined cars from
the 30's and 40's, and bits of peoples lives just lying in the street. Totally untouched since
it happened , it is the spookiest and most depressing place I have ever been.
Hi Hussy, nice place. Evidence of high winds, means sand storms. Frequently, would be my guess. Youre there on a calm day. WoW, completely abandoned! Wonder how far to the diamond mines? Be cool to find one. Nice video, have fun always, revved up yooprr
In the olden days they actually mined all around Kolmanskuppe, but today only at Elizabeth bay, some 20 km south of Kolmanskuppe which also is the security entry gate to the mine. No underground operations. All above ground ,sort of open pit but with max blasting depth of 2.5 meters on average.
Good to see there is no vandalism
And I thought Florida was hot,wow. All love, XXxxOOoo
What gets me is there’s no graffiti it’s not destroyed by vandals
Thats a good thing 😀
@Phil Graves Fifteen dollars entrance fee makes a big difference.
Great video, nice to see you wearing boots!
The thing about abandoned towns like this one there is abound to be even a creeper cemetery near by.
Wonderhussy who knew you were a realtor. Lol 😂
International Wonderhussy! You’ve out-done yourself with this exploration! An amazing site with our German guide! I wish they would repair the roofs. I think over time the weight of the sand will collapse the structures! I was hoping you would find a diamond! 💎 German’s are great builders! I wonder if you might explore some of the abandoned German enclaves in South America? Thanks Sarah!