Amazing Ghost Towns
When HostelBloggers read Oddee’s fascinating collection of ‘Ghost Towns’ around the world, it sent a bit of a shiver down our (utterly cowardly) spine.
From the tower blocks on the deserted Japanese island of Gunkanjima, to Kolmanskop, the old diamond mining town that has eerily been reclaimed by the Namibian desert, there are few things more unsettling than a town that’s been deserted and left at the mercy of the elements.
Whether abandoned when the nearby resources dried up or in the wake of a disaster (natural or otherwise), ghost towns are spooky for their emptiness. It’s not a natural emptiness, either, but the pronounced sense of absence - and the ‘ghostly’ vestiges of past lives - that really resonate as you creep around the crumbling buildings…
