Jumé Irmscher

Thanks to my husband for contributing a few photos Lüderitz Lüderitz is a dusty forgotten harbor in southern Namibia, lying on one of the least hospitable coasts in Africa. Naturally, that peaked our interest and it turned out to be the first stop for our whole brigade to meet and start our trek across southern Namibia. We planned to stay 4 nights. Now, it wasn’t because of the plenitude of activities to keep us occupied, it was simply just so far away from anything that we couldn’t muster enough energy to drive the legion of hours to the secluded town and back again without some serious R&R in-between.  Honestly, I’m glad we stayed that long. It’s a little bit of desert utopia at the end of the world surrounded by a verboten zone riddled with diamonds. It’s all very exciting, to be honest. And the town itself is a diamond in the rough.  Its historic town architecture is a mixture of German Imperial Style and Art Nouveau, placed between sand dunes and pa...