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<< Our Photo Pages >> The Lost City of Kalahari - Ancient Village or Settlement in Namibia

Submitted by KaiHofmann on Monday, 20 August 2018  Page Views: 3713

Multi-periodSite Name: The Lost City of Kalahari
Country: Namibia
NOTE: This site is 139.831 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Keetmannshoop  Nearest Village: Aroab
Latitude: 26.734374S  Longitude: 19.530230E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
1 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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The Lost City of Kalahari
The Lost City of Kalahari submitted by KaiHofmann : The second of the two weird hills close to the Aroab and the South African border, possible close to the lost city .Site in Namibia (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Village or Settlement in Namibia

In 1895 Gilarmi Farini found town-like structures in the Kalahari between Namibia, South Africa and Botswana. Many Bushmen (San) legends told about forgotten towns in the Kalahari desert. Farini made sketches and took photos from the site:
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Farini estimated the ruins to be thousands of years old. It is not sure if some of the structures near Aroab are man made or natural.
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The Lost City of Kalahari
The Lost City of Kalahari submitted by KaiHofmann : Stone piles close to the Aroab and the South African border, possible close to the lost city .Site in Namibia (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Lost City of Kalahari
The Lost City of Kalahari submitted by KaiHofmann : Infoboard in the national park in Botswana .Site in Botswana (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Lost City of Kalahari
The Lost City of Kalahari submitted by KaiHofmann : Stone piles close to the Aroab and the South African border, possible close to the lost city .Site in botswana (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Lost City of Kalahari
The Lost City of Kalahari submitted by KaiHofmann : info board of the lost city in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park between South Africa and Botswana . Site in Namibia (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

The Lost City of Kalahari
The Lost City of Kalahari submitted by KaiHofmann : Stone piles close to the Aroab and the South African border, possible close to the lost city .Site in Namibia (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Lost City of Kalahari
The Lost City of Kalahari submitted by KaiHofmann

The Lost City of Kalahari
The Lost City of Kalahari submitted by KaiHofmann : The first of the two weird hills close to the Aroab and the South African border, possible close to the lost city . Site in Namibia

The Lost City of Kalahari
The Lost City of Kalahari submitted by KaiHofmann : The first of the two weird hills close to the Aroab and the South African border . Site in Namibia

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