We drove through to Luderitz. On our way we stopped at Seeheim for coffee which is literally a hotel stuck in the middle of nowhere (What makes people build something in the middle of (almost) nowhere?).
The Namibian landscape varies dramatically. We drove through large plains covered in golden grass framed by mountains and hills and peppered with ostriches, springbok, gemsbok and wild, feral horses.
We arrived in Luderitz and everything was closed as it was a Sunday. We drove through the caravan resort and decided to check into a small hotel called Bay View as the wind was too strong to make camping comfortable. The reason Bay View qualified as a sleep-over, is because they serve crayfish, however we did not eat crayfish as they were rather expensive.
The landscape at Luderitz is different to anything I have seen before. There is the old diamond mining town called Kolmanskuppe which has become a true ghost town and which is slowly being swallowed up by the sand. The mining history is very interesting. The town rose up from the dunes in 1908 and by 1956 it was deserted as people moved to Luderitz or other new mining towns. There was a bowling alley and each house had electricity, telephones and ice supplied daily via a railway line that was laid throughout the town.